CLASSIFYING POLITICAL REGIMES

Authors
ALVAREZ M CHEIBUB JA LIMONGI F PRZEWORSKI A
Citation
M. Alvarez et al., CLASSIFYING POLITICAL REGIMES, Studies in comparative international development, 31(2), 1996, pp. 3-36
Citations number
53
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","International Relations
Journal title
Studies in comparative international development → ACNP
ISSN journal
00393606
Volume
31
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
3 - 36
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-3606(1996)31:2<3:CPR>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
This study presents a classification of political regimes as democraci es and dictatorships for a set of 141 countries between 1950 or the ye ar of independence and 1990. It improves existing classifications by a better grounding in political theory, an exclusive reliance on observ ables rather than on subjective judgements, an explicit distinction be tween systematic and random errors, and a more extensive coverage.