2019
DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12588
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Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data*

Abstract: Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outcome variables across numerous combinations of ordinal variables in social science analysis. Methods The approach is a sorting algorithm through repeated pairwise investigations of states in a set of variables and identifying what states in the variables occur before states in all other variables. We illustrate th… Show more

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“…These studies are nevertheless oriented towards explaining the timing of individual factors rather than longer chains of interdependent institutional reforms. Our approach to identifying a sample of democratization episodes, however, makes it possible to draw upon methods that borrow from genomics and evolutionary biology to differentiate and analyze processes associated with democratization (Lindenfors, Krusell & Lindberg, 2016;Lindenfors et al, 2018;Mechkova, Lührmann & Lindberg, 2018;Wang et al, 2017). Here, we briefly illustrate one way to use the variables that comprise the electoral democracy index to explore differences in successful and failed democratization episodes.…”
Section: Distribution Of Episode Durationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These studies are nevertheless oriented towards explaining the timing of individual factors rather than longer chains of interdependent institutional reforms. Our approach to identifying a sample of democratization episodes, however, makes it possible to draw upon methods that borrow from genomics and evolutionary biology to differentiate and analyze processes associated with democratization (Lindenfors, Krusell & Lindberg, 2016;Lindenfors et al, 2018;Mechkova, Lührmann & Lindberg, 2018;Wang et al, 2017). Here, we briefly illustrate one way to use the variables that comprise the electoral democracy index to explore differences in successful and failed democratization episodes.…”
Section: Distribution Of Episode Durationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These studies are nevertheless oriented towards explaining the timing of individual factors rather than longer chains of interdependent institutional reforms. Our approach to identifying a sample of democratization episodes, however, makes it possible to draw upon methods that borrow from genomics and evolutionary biology to differentiate and analyze processes associated with democratization (Lindenfors, Krusell & Lindberg, 2016;Lindenfors et al, 2018;Mechkova, Lührmann & Lindberg, 2018;Wang et al, 2017). Here, we briefly illustrate one way to use the variables that comprise the electoral democracy index to explore differences in successful and failed democratization episodes.…”
Section: Distribution Of Episode Durationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dahl, 1971;Huntington, 1968;O'Donnell and Schmitter, 1986), but until now, we lacked sufficient data and methods to investigate the details of how democracy develops. With detailed measures from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem, Coppedge et al, 2019b), a large sample of liberalization episodes from 1900 to 2018 (FASDEM), and new domination analysis techniques adapted from sequencing methods in evolutionary biology (Lindenfors et al, 2018;Lindenfors, Krusell, and Lindberg, 2019), we can for the first time identify the relative order of how electoral democracy develops. Deciphering the pattern of development across the ordinal scales of 24 components of electoral democracy (Teorell et al, 2019), the domination analysis identifies which institutional reforms came earlier in the liberalization sequence.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%