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The Captive
No full textMedium: stipple engravingprintssigned."The Captive" [1959.2454.000.000], Ryder, Thomas, Wright, JosephArtist and Role: Wright, Joseph,Extent: imageExtent: plateExtent: shee
An Alchymist
No full textMedium: mezzotintprintssigned."An Alchymist" [1959.3508.000.000], Pether, William, Wright, JosephArtist and Role: Pether, William,Artist and Role: Wright, Joseph, ArtistExtent: plateExtent: shee
Replication Data for: Remittances and Protest in Dictatorships
No full textRemittances -- money migrant workers send back home -- are the second largest source of international financial flows in developing countries. As with other sources of international finance, such as foreign direct investment and foreign aid, worker remittances shape politics in recipient countries. We examine the political consequences of remittances by exploring how they influence anti-government protest behavior. While recent research argues that remittances have a pernicious effect on politics by contributing to authoritarian stability, we argue the opposite: remittances increase political protest in non-democracies by augmenting the resources available to potential political opponents. Using cross-national data on a latent measure of anti-government political protest, we show that remittances increase protest. To explore the mechanism linking remittances to protest, we turn to individual-level data from eight non-democracies in Africa to show that remittance receipt increases protest in opposition areas but not in progovernment regions
The Latent Characteristics That Structure Autocratic Rule
No full textResearch on autocratic regimes in comparative politics and international relations often uses categorical typologies of autocratic regimes to distinguish among different forms of autocracy. This paper introduces historical data on dozens of features of dictatorships to estimate latent dimensions of autocratic rule. We identify three time-varying dimensions of autocracy that correspond to ideal types proposed in the literature: party dominance, military rule, and personalism. We show that dimensions of autocratic rule are orthogonal to commonly-used measures of democracy-autocracy, and compare these dimensions to existing typologies of autocracies, showing that time-varying information on personalism is unique. We discuss a measurement model of personalism and illustrate the time-varying features of this measure in applied research on conflict initiation and regime collapse
Replication Data for: Remittances and Protest in Dictatorships
No full textRemittances -- money migrant workers send back home -- are the second largest source of international financial flows in developing countries. As with other sources of international finance, such as foreign direct investment and foreign aid, worker remittances shape politics in recipient countries. We examine the political consequences of remittances by exploring how they influence anti-government protest behavior. While recent research argues that remittances have a pernicious effect on politics by contributing to authoritarian stability, we argue the opposite: remittances increase political protest in non-democracies by augmenting the resources available to potential political opponents. Using cross-national data on a latent measure of anti-government political protest, we show that remittances increase protest. To explore the mechanism linking remittances to protest, we turn to individual-level data from eight non-democracies in Africa to show that remittance receipt increases protest in opposition areas but not in progovernment regions
The Latent Characteristics That Structure Autocratic Rule
No full textResearch on autocratic regimes in comparative politics and international relations often uses categorical typologies of autocratic regimes to distinguish among different forms of autocracy. This paper introduces historical data on dozens of features of dictatorships to estimate latent dimensions of autocratic rule. We identify three time-varying dimensions of autocracy that correspond to ideal types proposed in the literature: party dominance, military rule, and personalism. We show that dimensions of autocratic rule are orthogonal to commonly-used measures of democracy-autocracy, and compare these dimensions to existing typologies of autocracies, showing that time-varying information on personalism is unique. We discuss a measurement model of personalism and illustrate the time-varying features of this measure in applied research on conflict initiation and regime collapse
Replication Data for: How Personalist Parties Undermine State Capacity in Democracies
No full textHow do political parties shape state capacity? We argue that democratic leaders backed by personalist parties are more likely than other leaders to undermine impartial state administration. Personalist parties are those where the leader has more control over the party than other senior party elites. Elites in these parties have careers closely tied to the leader, are unlikely to normatively value an impersonal bureaucracy, and lack collective action capacity independent from the leader. Therefore, personalist parties are less likely than other parties to restrain leaders from undermining impartial state administration. Results from various designs for causal inference show that party personalism decreases impersonal state administration, particularly when the party controls a legislative majority. However, party personalism does not influence other dimensions of state capacity, such as fiscal capacity or territorial control. The findings have implications for how political parties enable democratically elected leaders to erode open-access societies and ultimately, democracy
Replication Data for: "Personalization of Power and Repression in Dictatorships."
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Replication Data for: "Personalization of Power and Repression in Dictatorships."
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Three persons viewing the gladiator by candlelight
No full textMedium: mezzotintprintssigned and dated."Three persons viewing the gladiator by candlelight" [1959.3510.000.000], Pether, William, Wright, JosephArtist and Role: Pether, William,Artist and Role: Wright, Joseph, ArtistExtent: plate 48.1 x 55.
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