The Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) pioneered new ways to conceptualize and
measure democracy, producing a multidimensional and disaggregated data set on …

Significant variation in the institutions and efficiency of public bureaucracies across
countries and regions are observed. These differences could be partially responsible for …

Did British colonial rule promote post-independence democracy? We provide evidence that
the relationship follows a strong temporal pattern. Former British colonies were considerably …

This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-
term patterns of global diffusion. Its geographic argument centers on access to the sea …

An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial
occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized …

Do class divisions and fear of redistribution impede political transitions? This article argues
that tensions over economic redistribution in European settler colonies caused resisted …

For centuries, European history was characterized by a fundamental asymmetry. While
interpolity relations on the continent were often relatively balanced—without any dominant …

This paper introduces a novel dataset on working-time regulation for 197 territories between
1789 and 2010 to document how working hours have become globally standardised …

Could imperial rule affect state institutions at the national, regional, and local level
differently? No systematic theory to answer this question exists, which is surprising given the …

Settler-colonies are places of tremendous inequality and violence. Yet, at the same time,
settler-colonies are also places where elected institutions flourish. What explains the origin …