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Democracy and Elections in Africa
Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice MagazineThis volume studies elections as a core institution of liberal democracy in the context of newly democratizing countries. Political scientist Staffan I. Lindberg gathers data from every nationally contested election in Africa from 1989 to 2003, cov... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Why Democracies Develop and Decline
The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on democracy around the world that is now widely used by researchers, activists, and governments. Why Democracies Develop and Decline draws on... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change
by Jan Teorell • John Gerring • Michael Coppedge • Svend-Erik Skaaning • Staffan I. Lindberg • Adam Glynn • Carl Henrik Knutsen • Daniel Pemstein • Brigitte SeimVarieties of Democracy is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem), one of the most ambitious data collection efforts in comparative politics. This global research collaboration sparked a dramatic change in how we study the nature, causes, and consequences of democrac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020