How Democracies Develop: Patterns of Institutional Progression During Liberalization

• In Event: Institutional Reform and Regime Transition

Brief Overview

How do features of liberalization reinforce one another and affect the likelihood of a democratic transition? Using V-Dem’s measure of electoral democracy, we examine the relationship between its components and consider how they change over time.

Authors

• Laura Maxwell, University of Gothenburg

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• Staffan I. Lindberg, University of Gothenburg