Dictators often rule through political parties. While they might bolster regime survival, ruling parties can also provide a means for party members to defy the ...

Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Data Collection: Lessons from the Construction of Three Education Datasets

Divisions among regime elites in autocracies are often an important step toward political liberalization. However, we know little about when such divisions cont...

A growing body of literature suggests that many citizens reject representative politics and demand instead that people or unelected experts direct governmental decision-making. This study contribut...

Are politicians willing to betray their ideology, party, voters, and/or own principles to reach agreements with rivals? Focusing on the case of Spain, this arti...

We introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history (EPSM), which includes measures on compulsory education, ideological guida...

We introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history (EPSM), which includes measures on compulsory education, ideological guida...

We introduce a global dataset on education policies and systems across modern history (EPSM), which includes measures on compulsory education, ideological guida...