Classifying political regimes

Mike Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, Adam Przeworski

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    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 languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)3-36
    Number of pages34
    JournalStudies in Comparative International Development
    Volume31
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1996

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Development
    • Sociology and Political Science
    • Political Science and International Relations

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