Democratization

In this paper, I develop a theory of gender-based vote shift and test it in one of the worst cases of autocratization in the world.

In this paper, we re-examine the first decade of democratization after the Cold War and argue that the setting of unreasonable expectations will have a potentially deleterious effect on political participation and democratic consolidation.

In this paper, I provide an empirical test of one aspect of the arguments relating to the effect of reiterated elections on level of democracy.

In this article, I argue that gradualism is a better way to approach democratization in the Balkans compared to the transition paradigm.