Abstract
This study presents a classification of political regimes as democracies and dictatorships for a set of 141 countries between 1950 or the year of independence and 1990. It improves existing classifications by a better grounding in political theory, an exclusive reliance on observables rather than on subjective judgements, an explicit distinction between systematic and random errors, and a more extensive coverage.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3-36 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Journal | Studies in Comparative International Development |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1996 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Development
- Sociology and Political Science
- Political Science and International Relations