Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of Alternative Conceptualizations

By Zachary Elkins. 2000

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

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Claims to Legitimacy Matter: Why Sanctions Fail to Instigate Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes (2014, unknown): “ The alternative strategy of only measuring the actual transi‐ tion to liberal democracy would seriously truncate the dependent variable, and hence entail the risk of missing the gradual democratic improvements that oftentimes occur in autocratic contexts (Elkins 2000; Verkuilen and Munck 2002).”
A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007 (2013, background): “…al. 2010), polychotomous (Gasiorowski 1996; Collier and Levitsky 1997; Mainwaring et al. 2007),1 continuous (Cutright 1963; Bollen and Jackman 1989; Elkins 2000), or multi-dimensional (Dahl 1971; Bollen and Paxton 2000; Altman and Pérez-Liñán 2002; Vanhanen 2005; Coppedge et al. 2008; Gerring…”
Democratization is the Driving Force for Technological and Economic Change (2010, unknown): “Despite all the differences in the construction of democratic indices, it is striking that their measures most commonly correlate strongly with each other [44].”
Does Public Support Help Democracy Survive? (2019, background): “Although the dichotomous nature of the DD indicator affords a conceptual clarity, Elkins (2000) show that it leads to lower validity and reliability.”
A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy (2015, background): “Even so, scaling is a critical issue in measurement and one that has garnered considerable controversy, especially as concerns the virtues and vices of binary measures (contrast Elkins, 2000 and Cheibub et al., 2010).”
Democracy and dictatorship revisited (2010, background): “Thus, it may be true, as Elkins (2000: 294–298) argues, that a dichotomous measure of democracy may fail to detect a signiﬁcant relationship between democracy and a dependent variable where a continuous measure may reveal one.”
Improving Social Well-Being Through New Democratic Institutions (2014, background): “This approach misses the development of democratic practices under authoritarian regimes while also ignoring the great internal variation of democratic regimes and their adoption of participatory institutions in the third wave (Dagnino, Olivera, & Panfichi, 2006; de Sousa Santos, 2005; Elkins, 2000)”
Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries (2005, background): “; the losers tended to be less-skilled, poorer workers, generally rural ones+24 Even the debt crisis of the early 1980s was unable to shake this coalition from its economically inefficient policies+Many scholars report that protection increased in the wake of the debt crisis, especially in Latin Ame”