Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy

By Gerardo L. Munck, J. Verkuilen. 2002

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Democracy and Human Development (2012, background): “Second, there are serious questions regarding measurement error in the index (Bollen and Paxton 2000; Bowman, Lehoucq, and Mahoney 2005; Munck and Verkuilen 2002; Treier and Jackman 2008).”
Corruption, Democracy, and Economic Growth (2006, background): “For a critical review of these three different measures of democracy, see Munck and Verkuilen (2002).”
The tyranny of international index rankings (2012, methodology): “There has been a great deal of discussions about this for all the indexes used in this paper; for the Human Development Index see for example Sagar and Najam (1998), for Freedom House see among others Munck and Verkuilen (2002), and for Doing Business dimension.”
Democracy, Political Risks and Stock Market Performance (2015, neutral): “There has been some criticism of the typically used measures of democracy (Munck and Verkuilen (2002) provide a 3 Although MSCI Barra has announced that it will classify Israel as a developed country as of May 2010, we include it in our dataset because it was an emerging market during most of our…”
National Institutions and Global Public Goods: Are Democracies More Cooperative in Climate Change Policy? (2009, background): “…winning coalition ~the subset of the selectorate that is needed to bring or keep leaders in office!+ In nondemocracies, the 25+ See Przeworski 2004; and Munck and Verkuilen 2002+ Obviously, climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation by all countries worldwide, at the very least…”
Democracy and State Capacity: Complements or Substitutes? (2015, neutral): “Although the problems with this measure are well-understood (Munck and Verkuilen 2002), using the measure provides comparability with other works such as Ross (2006).”
Democratisation and Growth (2008, methodology): “Following recent contributions in conceptualising and measuring democracy (Munck and Verkuilen, 2002; Mainwaring et al., 2000) for our coding of transitions we follow four general rules/questions: (1) Were the legislative or presidential elections free and fair?”
Coercive or Corrosive: The Negative Impact of Economic Sanctions on Democracy (2010, background): “Although the Freedom House index and the Polity2 score are highly correlated (r = 0.895), they capture rather different but interrelated aspects of democratic regime (For a useful discussion on the conceptualization and measurement of democracy see Munck and Verkuilen 2002).”
Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization (2008, neutral): “Thus, in our methodology we do not impose a particular definition, but building on recent work in conceptualizing and measuring democracy (e.g. Munck and Verkuilen, 2002), we try to capture four key aspects of representative government, when classifying political regimes.”