A5041331059- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
- Medical Practices and Rehabilitation
- Health and Medical Studies
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Trauma Management and Diagnosis
- Airway Management and Intubation Techniques
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition
- Disaster Response and Management
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- European history and politics
- Religion and Society Interactions
- International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2018-2025
Düsseldorf University Hospital
2018-2025
German Society of Medical Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine
2025
University of Florida
2015-2024
Alb Fils Kliniken
2024
University of Bern
2024
University Hospital of Bern
2024
Thomas Jefferson University
2024
University of North Texas
2021-2023
University of Notre Dame
2022
In the wake of Cold War, democracy has gained status a mantra. Yet there is no consensus about how to conceptualize and measure regimes such that meaningful comparisons can be made through time across countries. this prescriptive article, we argue for new approach conceptualization measurement. We first review some weaknesses among traditional approaches. then lay out our approach, which may characterized as historical, multidimensional, disaggregated, transparent. end by reviewing payoffs...
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in 2020 dataset.
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in v14 dataset (2024).
Using an original dataset that covers the period from 1951 to 1995, we consider enduring effects of Western overseas colonialism on democratic survival postcolonial democracies. We treat as a holistic phenomenon and differentiate relative its legacies with regard level economic development, social fragmentation, relationship between state civil society. find colonialism, factor often overlooked in recent large-n studies, continues have effect regimes. further legacy specific colonial powers...
With the collapse of communist regimes across former Soviet bloc, reforms one sort or another are now taking place throughout eastern half Europe. Progress towards democracy in region seems unambiguously underway only area East Central Europe -the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. In discussions this democratization, reemergence civil society is often noted as a significant development. The first purpose account to clarify meaning term society. Its second...
While a large literature suggests an important role for political parties in development, this article is the first attempt to layout and test comprehensive theory connecting economic growth. The authors argue that strong broaden constituencies which policymakers respond help politicians solve coordination problems. These features ensure better management, public services, stability. And this, turn, enhances Drawing on novel measure of party strength from Varieties Democracy data set, drawn...
Giovanni Sartori once described African party systems as “formless.” Our contribution challenges this view in an era of resurgent multipartism that swept through the subcontinent early 1990s and continues until today. The article brings together contemporary research on with wider disciplinary literature system institutionalization. Using a data set including all continuous election sequences Africa from 1950 to 2008, we find has some most volatile ever recorded yet, tremendous diversity...
All variables that V-Dem is compiling are included in the Codebook.
The V-Dem Dataset v11.1 covers 202 countries, with a year coverage: 1789-2020 483 indicators, 82 indices and 5 high-level indices.
All variables that V-Dem is compiling are included in the Codebook.
All variables that V-Dem is compiling are included in the Codebook.
How is it that Poland and Hungary, formerly regional leaders in democratic progress east central Europe, have become widely cited cases of backsliding? According to the political science literature on democratization, path by which they exited communism should favored stable outcomes. This paper reexamines argues misses potential populist dangers inherent combination accommodation contention democratization process both countries. The changes structural conditions under Polish Hungarian...
This Codebook includes all the variables that V-Dem is compiling in 2019 dataset.
This essay discusses the lessons of thirty years postcommunist politics for our understanding relationship between civil society and regime change. It identifies four different modalities – insurgent, institutionalized, uncivil firewall each in detail with illustrations from post-communist politics. shows how region has been a fertile field study innovation contemporary understandings comparative
Abstract The third wave of democratization has given way to a reverse autocratization. A critical question is what can be done prevent democratic breakdowns and make democracy endure. large body historical-narrative small-N comparative scholarship suggested that an active mobilized civil society institutionalized political parties protect from authoritarian takeovers. We provide the first rigorous set empirical analyses test this argument using data Varieties Democracy (V-Dem) project for...
Mass mobilization (MM) is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize in favor more democratic institutions, others take to the streets support authoritarian status quo. This article introduces measures pro-democratic and pro-autocratic MM using expert assessments for 179 polities from 1900–2021. The data allow us trace patterns over time, across regions regime types. We use this new systematically analyze relationship between both types confirm findings literature...
The breakdown of democracies has long been associated with poor economic performance. This study attempts to determine whether different configurations democratic institutions can mediate the effects Using an original data set that includes all from period 1919 1995, we use continuous-time duration analysis test hypotheses derived literature on democratization. Specifically, interaction party system and configuration legislative executive power (parliamentarism presidentialism) performance...
The literature on civil society in postcommunist regimes highlights its weakness as compared with other democracies. In this article the authors make a general argument how different patterns of antecedent dictatorship affect development across range They examine slow emergence two behaviors associated robust society—participation organizational life and protest—and explain variation countries function regime history. draw their individual-level data from World Values Survey analyze behavior...