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Protest beats manipulation: exploring sources of interparty competition under competitive and hegemonic authoritarianism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
Electoral authoritarian rulers face a potential strategic dilemma. They need to contain the uncertainty of national elections and they need to maintain a minimum of popular support. Yet, achieving the former through electoral ...
Academic market failure: data availability and quality in comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Over the past two decades, we have seen an impressive expansion of quantitative work in comparative politics. The expanding edifice of quantitative cross-national political research, however, rests upon incomplete as well ...
The twin uncertainty of authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
Authoritarian rulers have a twin problem of uncertainty. They have a problem of “institutional uncertainty.” Their survival in power is insecure. And they have a problem of “informational uncertainty.” The foundations of ...
The quantitative skeleton of comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
On the basis of a broad sample of quantitative studies in comparative politics, published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this paper offers an empirical radiography of data usage in comparative empirical ...
Concept formation in political science
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
Concepts are central to the enterprise of political science. If we fail to develop clear and precise concepts, our theoretical insights and empirical discoveries will fail to be clear and precise, too. This paper reviews ...
La política comparada de las elecciones autoritarias: un debate en torno a The politics of uncertainty: sustaining and subverting electoral authoritarianism de Andreas Schedler
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015)
El libro de Andreas Schedler hace importantes contribuciones a la teoría de los regímenes autoritarios, al debate sobre cómo conceptualizar y medir los fenómenos políticos y a nuestro entendimiento acerca de las consecuencias ...