Outputs (10)

Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding (2024)
Journal Article
Knutsen, C. H., Marquardt, K. L., Seim, B., Coppedge, M., Edgell, A. B., Medzihorsky, J., Pemstein, D., Teorell, J., Gerring, J., & Lindberg, S. I. (2024). Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding. PS: Political Science and Politics, 57(2), 162-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/s104909652300077x

During the past decade, analyses drawing on several democracy measures have shown a global trend of democratic retrenchment. While these democracy measures use radically different methodologies, most partially or fully rely on subjective judgments to... Read More about Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding.

Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties (2023)
Journal Article
Medzihorsky, J., & Lindberg, S. I. (2024). Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties. Party Politics, 30(3), 420-434. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688231153092

The recent increase of democratic declines around the world – “the third wave of autocratization” – has sparked a new generation of studies on the topic. Scholars tend to agree that the main threat to contemporary democracy arises from democratically... Read More about Walking the Talk: How to Identify Anti-Pluralist Parties.

Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization (2022)
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Wilson, M. C., Medzihorsky, J., Maerz, S. F., Lindenfors, P., Edgell, A. B., Boese, V. A., & Lindberg, S. I. (2023). Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization. Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 501-520. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2022.11

This paper introduces a new approach to the quantitative study of democratization. Building on the comparative case-study and large-N literature, it outlines an episode approach that identifies the discrete beginning of a period of political liberali... Read More about Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization.

Charm Offensive or Offensive Charm? An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cultural Institutes Abroad (2020)
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Popovic, M., Jenne, E. K., & Medzihorsky, J. (2020). Charm Offensive or Offensive Charm? An Analysis of Russian and Chinese Cultural Institutes Abroad. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2020.1785397

Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring Democracy (2020)
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Lindberg, S. I., & Medzihorsky, J. (2020). Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring Democracy. Patterns, 1(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100056

Rethinking the D'Hondt method (2019)
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Medzihorsky, J. (2019). Rethinking the D'Hondt method. Political Research Exchange, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736x.2019.1625712

The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)1 (2019)
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Coppedge, M., Gerring, J., Knutsen, C. H., Krusell, J., Medzihorsky, J., Pernes, J., Skaaning, S.-E., Stepanova, N., Teorell, J., Tzelgov, E., Wilson, S. L., & Lindberg, S. I. (2019). The Methodology of “Varieties of Democracy” (V-Dem)1. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 143(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319854989

Rhetoric of civil conflict management: United Nations Security Council debates over the Syrian civil war (2017)
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Medzihorsky, J., Popovic, M., & Jenne, E. K. (2017). Rhetoric of civil conflict management: United Nations Security Council debates over the Syrian civil war. Research and Politics, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017702982

Election Fraud: A Latent Class Framework for Digit-Based Tests (2015)
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Medzihorsky, J. (2015). Election Fraud: A Latent Class Framework for Digit-Based Tests. Political Analysis, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpv021

Has the Tea Party Era Radicalized the Republican Party? Evidence from Text Analysis of the 2008 and 2012 Republican Primary Debates (2014)
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Medzihorsky, J., Littvay, L., & Jenne, E. K. (2014). Has the Tea Party Era Radicalized the Republican Party? Evidence from Text Analysis of the 2008 and 2012 Republican Primary Debates. PS: Political Science and Politics, 47(04), https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096514001085