Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Crowdsourcing a Democracy Index – 2012 edition

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It’s that time of the year again – time to crowdsource a democracy index. First, a bit of context. Last year, I had the idea of using th...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Irrelevance of Legitimacy - now as a working paper!

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(This paper has now been published. The official version is available here , and an ungated version can be found here ).   Sorry for the r...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

On stability and legitimacy

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Consider the following passages from David Beetham’s The Legitimation of Power (1991): …it is a notable feature of power relations th...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Varieties of Political Competition

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(Part 1.5 of a series on the history ofpolitical regimes . This gets a bit technical in the second half, which contains a sort of blurry s...
Monday, February 20, 2012

A Very Short Quantitative History of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Other Political Regimes, Part I

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(Part I of probably two). Readers will have to forgive me, but I find dataset blogging addictive. One can use historical datasets to t...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

The Half-life of Leaders and the Half-life of Regimes

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Thinking back on the last couple of posts , a couple of questions arise naturally. First, there is the question of the survival of regime...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Comparative Political Leader Survival, 1946-2008

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After playing around with Jay Ulfelder's data on the survival of democracy in the previous post , it occurred to me that I have not ...