How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others
remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

This book is the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on challenges of electoral integrity
to be published by Cambridge University Press. Unfortunately too often elections around the …

Historical institutionalist theories of endogenous change have enhanced our understanding
of institutional development by providing a theoretical vocabulary for analyzing how …

" Focusing on regime trajectories across the former Soviet Union, Pluralism by Default posits
that political competition in" new democracies" has often been grounded less in well …

Research on militias portrays them as subservient proxies of governments used to achieve
tactical goals. The conventional wisdom, however, ignores the diversity of state–militia …

This paper examines the diffusion of activism in post-colonial Hong Kong through the lens of
the political regime and eventful analysis. It first reveals the institutional foundations of the …

Incumbents in electoral regimes often retain power despite having to regularly compete in
multiparty elections. We examine a specific channel through which incumbents can seek to …

Objective We argue that the “everyday nationalism” approach is both useful and necessary
for improving existing constructivist approaches in the comparative study of nationalism and …

Authoritarian regimes that have their origins in revolution boast a much higher survival rate
than other brands of authoritarianism. What accounts for the durability of these revolutionary …