TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wilson, Matthew Charles
A1  - Medzihorsky, Juraj
A1  - Maerz, Seraphine F.
A1  - Lindenfors, Patrik
A1  - Edgell, Amanda B.
A1  - Boese, Vanessa Alexandra
A1  - Lindberg, Staffan I.
T1  - Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization
T2  - Political science research and methods
N2  - This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it outlines an episode approach that identifies the discrete beginning of a period of political liberalization, traces its progression, and classifies episodes as successful versus different types of failing outcomes, thus avoiding potentially fallacious assumptions of unit homogeneity. We provide a description and analysis of all 383 liberalization episodes from 1900 to 2019, offering new insights on democratic “waves”. We also demonstrate the value of this approach by showing that while several established covariates are valuable for predicting the ultimate outcomes, none explain the onset of a period of liberalization.
KW  - Comparative politics
KW  - political institutions
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62898
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-628983
SN  - 2049-8489
N1  - Early View: Online Version before inclusion in an issue
VL  - 2022
IS  - online version before inclusion in an issue
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -