The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

We examine Africa's emerging urban geography from a demographic perspective and
discuss implications for development policy. We adopt an approach that defines …

Many scholars consider the bargaining power between ruler and society to be one of the
most important determinants of a country's political regime and institutions. The relative …

This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate
violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights …

Does landholding inequality undermine democratization? Recent contributions have
challenged the argument that landholding elites oppose suffrage extension if geographically …

Cities, and the process of urbanization more broadly, play an integral role in narratives and
theories of political change, from revolutions to democratization. Yet most accounts fail to …

The chapter starts with a general definition of legacy and spells out the factors that
eventually create more favorable conditions for the autocratization process. By referring to …