Abandoned Footnotes

My previous post , in one chart: (Click here for larger size). Bubbles to the right are more democratic countries, measured using the U...

(Statistician General’s warning: no significance tests or confidence intervals were harmed in the writing of this post. Appropriate model a...

Here’s an idea I’ve been mulling over for the past week. (Mulling over enough to have spent many hours in an abortive attempt to create a ...

(A review of Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way’s Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War , Cambridge University Pre...

In a 1991 review essay discussing several books by James C. Scott , the late Charles Tilly gets cranky with rationalistic explanations of be...

(I’ve been invited by the  Society for Philosophy and Culture  here at  VUW  to host a session of their  Symposiumon “Protest” on 5 April ...

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...

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

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