Studies at the confluence of history and social science address issues of causation in three
ways: morphological, variable-centered, and genetic. These approaches to causal …

The goal of this article is to understand which combinations of explanatory conditions
account for the qualitative differences within forms of democratic breakdown (ie, transition …

While the process of democratization is nowadays an established scholarship, the reverse
process of de-democratization has generated less attention even when the regression or …

This paper examines whether major output collapses are more likely under autocracy. Using
data on 123 developing countries over 1971–2016, we model the joint evolution of output …

Economic vulnerability has been linked to pro-democracy protests in autocracies. This study
suggests that the economically vulnerable are also more likely to participate in protests in …

Why do economic crises sometimes lead to democratic breakdown and sometimes not? To
answer this question, we bring in a new conditioning factor. We propose that bureaucracies …

An influential body of scholarship in political science has investigated the impact of
economic crisis on various political outcomes. The vast majority of these studies rely on …

Democratic institutions were seriously challenged across Europe between 1917 and 1939.
In 1920, most European states were parliamentary democracies, by 1939 the majority had …

Scholars have convincingly argued that theoretical frameworks that combine international
influences and domestic factors are needed to understand political regime developments …

We first survey theoretical arguments and recent quantitative studies on the relationship
between economic development and autocratization and thereafter present a novel …