Country Coding Unit V11

Coppedge, Michael; Gerring, John; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Lindberg, Staffan I.; Teorell, Jan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3802649

Cited by 11 publications

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“…This is a demanding index in the sense that it requires respondents to explicitly reject non-democratic alternatives. Similar measures have been suggested by other authors (Diamond, 2008: 31–34; Inglehart and Welzel, 2005: 253).…”

Section: Micro-level Perceptions Political Culturesupporting

confidence: 89%

Comparing regime types – ‘most similar’ cases in East Asia

Berg‐Schlosser

Hoffmann‐Lange

2023

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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The People's Republic of China (PRC), the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Republic of Singapore represent different types of political regimes and provide a fascinating contrast concerning their performance with regard to the global conflict between liberal democracies and autocracies. This paper examines briefly their common historical backgrounds and provides a detailed analysis of common ‘Asian’ cultural features and popular support for democracy on the micro-level. It then systematically assesses their performance concerning liberal democracy and quality, governance scores, and socio-economic development. Finally, the reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic are documented showing again specific regime characteristics. We use most recent V-Dem, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, World Values Surveys and similar data. The conclusions point to possible international consequences and the crucial position of Taiwan.

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Section: Micro-level Perceptions Political Culturesupporting

confidence: 89%

Comparing regime types – ‘most similar’ cases in East Asia

Berg‐Schlosser

Hoffmann‐Lange

2023

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics

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“…Yet, I argue that a nontrivial amount of research objectives should prefer imprecise summations to approaches that omit relevant legal rules or whole laws that comprise part of the jurisdiction's legal institution. Jurisdiction-level measures have a rich history in social science research, including the Polity IV and Polity5 Projects (Marshall et al, 2019), World Governance Indicators (Kaufmann et al, 2009), V-Dem (Coppedge et al, 2021), and judicial independence (Linzer & Staton, 2015). These datasets all contain imperfect indicators that are invaluable for researchers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction‐level legal institutions

DeMattee

2022

Policy Studies Journal

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Laws are a unique type of primary data: they structure our everyday interactions and are publicly available to all people. How can we assess the law's effect when multiple overlapping and cross‐referencing statutes constrain and incentivize behavior simultaneously? I present a principled method for aggregating the legal rules coded in multiple laws into a single legal institution to help us understand and better characterize complex, interconnected, and sometimes contradictory bundles of legal rules. The method utilizes Institutional Grammar (IG), which scholars have used to code legal language into comparable institutional statements. The method is amenable to any legal topic and is especially appropriate when multiple statutes simultaneously comprise the legal institution in a single jurisdiction. To illustrate, I draw on the laws regulating civil society organizations (CS0s), which offer a valuable and substantively important prism to study legal texts as the cause of social phenomena or the outcome of a political process. I discuss my proposed method in three parts: first, why using IG enhances a coding instrument's validity; second, how an IG‐based instrument allows researchers to scale up coded values of separate laws into a jurisdiction‐level value; finally, I compare techniques for estimating descriptive measures of a jurisdiction's legal institution.

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“…The data base investigates major organizational characteristics of parties for the time period 1970-2019 and offers expert-coded assessments of party organization and identity. Using V-Dem methodology (Coppedge, et al, 2020), in January 2020, 665 experts rated the policy positions and organizational capacity of political parties across elections in a given country. The data base includes 1955 political parties across 1560 elections in 169 countries.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?

Ishiyama

Basnet

2022

Party Politics

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In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of work on the transformation of formerly rebel groups into political parties. However, there is little work that examines the organizational types of parties that formerly armed groups become. Are these parties more likely to exhibit certain organizational characteristics when compared to other parties? This is an important question especially as scholars consider the role these former rebel parties play in the development of peace and democracy in post-civil war politics. Using data from Daly (2020) and Tuncel and Manning (2022) , as well as recently released data from V-Dem on political parties (Coppedge et al 2020) we find that former rebel parties are more clientelistic and personalistic than other parties, even compared to parties in countries where they compete. We suggest that these parties are unlikely to play a constructive role in post conflict democratization.

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Country Coding Unit V11

Cited by 11 publications

References 139 publications

Comparing regime types – ‘most similar’ cases in East Asia

Comparing regime types – ‘most similar’ cases in East Asia

A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction‐level legal institutions

Born out of civil wars: Are former rebel parties an organizationally distinct type of party?

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