TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring autocratic regime stability
AU - Wright, Joseph
AU - Bak, Daehee
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Joseph Wright acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (grant number BCS #0904463) for this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Researchers measure regime stability in autocratic contexts using a variety of data sources that capture distinct concepts. Often this research uses concepts developed for the study of democratic politics, such as leadership change or institutionalized authority, to construct measures of regime breakdown in non-democratic contexts. This article assesses whether the measure a researcher chooses influences the results they obtain by examining data on executive leadership, political authority, and autocratic regimes. We illustrate the conceptual differences between these variables by extending recent studies in the literature on the political consequences of non-tax revenue and unearned foreign income.
AB - Researchers measure regime stability in autocratic contexts using a variety of data sources that capture distinct concepts. Often this research uses concepts developed for the study of democratic politics, such as leadership change or institutionalized authority, to construct measures of regime breakdown in non-democratic contexts. This article assesses whether the measure a researcher chooses influences the results they obtain by examining data on executive leadership, political authority, and autocratic regimes. We illustrate the conceptual differences between these variables by extending recent studies in the literature on the political consequences of non-tax revenue and unearned foreign income.
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U2 - 10.1177/2053168015626606
DO - 10.1177/2053168015626606
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85032982933
VL - 3
JO - Research and Politics
JF - Research and Politics
SN - 2053-1680
IS - 1
ER -