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

Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Europe, few scholars disagree that the
past continues to shape the democratic trajectories of postcommunist states. Precommunist …

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post …

Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics
can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach …

Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly
severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption …

Why does sub-Saharan Africa exhibit the highest rates of gender inequality in the world?
This article evaluates the contributions of Christian missionary societies in German East …

LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROTEST HAS CHARACTERISED political
development in a number of post-communist and other transition countries over the last two …

This book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and anti-Christian violence in India.
It asks: why has India been experiencing increasing incidents of anti-Christian violence …

A growing literature posits that colonial Christian missions brought schooling to the colonies,
improving human capital in ways that persist to this day. But in some places, they did much …

Since the late 2000s, Christian missions have been extensively researched in the fields of
long-run comparative economic history. This chapter surveys the main findings of this …