2/1/07:
Corrected the Polyarchy 2000 data based on additional coding done by
graduate students in Spring 2006.
Added separate Undergraduate and Graduate pages. Added several datasets
to each course page.
2/7/05:
Completed the Polyarchy 2000 data for all
countries in the world, now in Excel and SPSS file formats rather than
in HTML. This new dataset also contains a new indicator of contestation
for both 1985 and 2000. This variable is a less precise but more
reliable indicator of the contestation dimension of polyarchy.
1/14/05:
Added additional countries to the Polyarchy
2000 data, bringing the total to 145 countries.
5/30/03:
Added Polyarchy 2000 data
and Excel
file for the Polyarchy 1985 data.
CV has been updated.
8/26/02:
Added "Theory Building and
Hypothesis
Testing:
Large- vs. Small-N Approaches in Democratization Research," "Thickening
Thin Concepts: Issues in Large-N Data Generation," and a review
of Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando
Limongi, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and
Well-Being
in the World, 1950-1990 (forthcoming in Studies in Comparative
International
Development) to democratization papers.
7/24/02:
Redesigned homepage.
7/19/02:
Added "Explaining
Democratic Deterioration
in Venezuela Through Nested Inference" to Venezuela papers.
Added appointment as Editor of APSA-CP and link to the
newsletter's
website.
Updated CV.
6/14/02:
Updated CV.
3/8/02:
Added full Curriculum Vitae to homepage. Deleted list of publications.
Added “Political Determinants of Fiscal Discipline in Latin America,
1979-1998,' (with Andrés Mejía Acosta) to pre-publication
papers on Latin American party systems.
Added "Party Systems, Governability, and the Quality of Democracy in
Latin America," to pre-publication papers on Latin American party
systems.
Added "Patterns of Diffusion in the Third Wave of Democratization"
to pre-publication papers on democratization.
Added a link to a free copy of the Kellogg Working Paper documenting
my classification of parties.
Added an Excel spreadsheet containing the basic bloc, volatility, and
fragmentation data used in various analyses of Latin American party
systems.
Added a link to Lydia's page.
7/5/2000:
Added "Combining Large- and Small-N Approaches in Democratization
Research"
to Pre-Publication Papers on Democratization.
Added complete classification criteria to Latin American party data.
Added Updates page.