Carl Henrik Knutsen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed how regime type and state capacity may interact in affecting economic growth and found a positive and robust effect of democracy on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by weak-capacity states.

TL;DR: This article showed that elections increase the short-term probability of regime failure in 259 autocratic regimes from 1946 to 2008, and that these temporal effect patterns are present for both executive and legislative elections, and they are robust to using different measures, control variable strategies, and estimation techniques.

TL;DR: This article argued that autocratic regimes are no less likely than democracies to adopt old-age pensions, although autocratic programs are less universal in their coverage than those of democracies, and they also argued that they are less likely to adopt universal health care.

TL;DR: The V- Dem Dataset v11.1 covers 202 countries, with a year coverage: 1789-2020 483 V-Dem indicators, 82 indices and 5 high-level indices.