Research
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Selected Publications and Papers
Comparative Historical Work on Paths to Democracy in Europe
The Moore Thesis: What’s Left after 1989?
Democratization 2016.
Chronic Instability and the Limits of Path
Dependence. POP 2015.
Post-Communism, the Civilizing Process, and
the Mixed Impact of Leninist Violence. EEPS 2015. Co-author: Jeffrey
Kopstein.
Twenty Years After
Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration, Oxford
University Press, 2014. Co-editor and co-author: Jan Kubik.

The Revolutions of 1989: Twenty Years
Later. Angelaki 2010
Symposium: Rereading The Intellectuals on the Road to Class
Power. Theory and Society, 2005.
Democratization in Germany:
A Reappraisal. CP 2001
Large-n Cross-national Event History Studies of Democratic
Survival
Institutional Subsystems and the Survival of
Democracy: Do Political and Civil Society Matter? V-Dem
Working Paper. Coauthors: Christopher Reenock, Allen Hicken, and Staffan
Lindberg.
Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival in a
Comparative Perspective, EEPS 2016. Co-authors: Jeff Carter and
Timothy Nordstrom.
Regressive Socioeconomic Distribution and Democratic Survival, ISQ
2007.
Coauthors: Christopher Reenock and David Sobek.
The Legacy of Western Overseas Colonialism on
Democratic Survival, ISQ 2004.
Co-authors:Christopher Reenock and Timothy Nordstrom.
Economic Performance and Survival in New Democracies:
It There a Honeymoon Effect? CPS 2003. Co-authors: Christopher
Reenock and Timothy Nordstrom.
Economic Performance, Institutional Intermediation and
Democratic Breakdown, JOP 2001. Co-authors -- Christopher Reenock and
Timothy Nordstrom.
Civil Society and
Democracy
Making Embedded Knowledge Transparent: How the V-Dem
Dataset Opens New Vistas in Civil Society Research.
POP 2017. Coauthors -- Dong-Joon Jung, Eitan Tzelgov, Michael
Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg.
The Wages of Extrication: Civil Society and Inequality
in Postcommunist Eurasia, CP 2017. Coauthor
-- Dong-Joon Jung.
Civil Society and Democracy in an Era of Inequality,
CP 2017. Coauthors -- Tiago Fernandes, and Rui Branco.
Civil Society and
Regime-Type in European Postcommunist Countries: The Perspective Two Decades
after 1989-1991. TJoD 2011. Co-author:
Ruchan Kaya.
Civil Society and the Legacies of Dictatorship, WP 2007.
Co-author: Ekrem Karakoc.
Civil Society after the First Transition: Dilemmas of
Postcommunist Democratization in Poland and Beyond, CPCS 1996.
The Origins of Democratization in Poland. Columbia
University Press
1993.

Civil Society and Democratic Transition in East Central
Europe. PSQ 1993.
The Strikes of June 1976 in Poland. EEPS 1987.
From the
Polish Underground. Penn State University Press.1995. Coeditor: Henryk
Szlajfer.

Development
Party Strength and Economic Growth.
Forthcoming World Politics. Co-authors: Fernando Bizarro, John Gerring, Allen
Hicken, Carl Henrik Knudsen, Michael Coppedge, Svend-Erik Skaaning, and
Staffan Lindberg.
State or Regime? The Impact of Institutions on
Welfare Outcomes. EJDR 2016. Co-author:
Simone Dietrich.
Authoritarian Emulation of Democracy
Where and When do Elections Matter? A Global
Test of the the Democratization by Elections Thesis, 1900-2012.
Democratization 2017. Coauthors: Amanda Edgell, Valeria Mechkova, David
Altman, and Staffan I. Lindberg.
“Are Elections Mechanisms of Authoritarian Stability
or Democratization? Evidence from Postcommunist Eurasia,”
POP 2013. Co-author: Ruchan Kaya. Web
Appendix.
Party System Institutionalization
Moving West or Going South? Economic Transformation and Institutionalization in Postcommunist Party Systems. CP 2001.
Co-author:
Ekrem Karakoc
From Formlessness to Structure? The
Institutionalization of Competitive Party Systems in Africa.
CPS 2014. Co-author: Keith Weghorst.
International Conflict
Democratization and Conflict.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Co-authors: Ömer
Faruk Örsün, and Reşat Bayer.
Democratization in Conflict
Researcg: How Conceptualization
Affects Operationalization and Testing Outcomes.
International Interactions 2017. Coauthors: Ömer Faruk Örsün and Resat Bayer.
Social Revolution, the State, and War: How Revolutions affect War-Making Capacity and Interstate War Outcomes.
JCR 2012. Co-authors: Jeff Carter and
Glenn Palmer.
The Operationalization of Democracy and the Strength of the Democratic Peace: A Test of the Relative Utility of Scalar and Dichotomous Measures, CMPS 2010.
Co-author
R. Bayer
Institutional Choice in Eastern Europe
Institutions and the Fate of Democracy. University of Pittsburgh
Press 2005.

Institutional Choice after Communism: A Critique of Theory-building in
an Empirical Wasteland, EEPS. 2000.
Institutional Choice and the Failure of Democracy: The Case of Interwar
Poland, EEPS. 1999.
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