Abandoned Footnotes

Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties.

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 ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

How Fragile is Democracy? A Footnote on Jay Ulfelder’s Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation

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Stories about what makes democracy stable tend to take one of two forms. The first stresses socialization, learning, and the gradual develop...
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