1.
Of Coups and the Constitution
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 294
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 01 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Tennessee College of Law
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11,002
2.
Search for Identity: Turkey's Identity Crisis
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Independent
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8,634
3.
Designing Islamic Constitutions: Past Trends and Options for a Democratic Future
International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2013, University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-18
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 02 May 2013
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington School of Law
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7,863
4.
Islam in Egypt's New Constitution
Foreign Policy, December 2012, University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-19
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 02 May 2013
Last Revised: 28 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington School of Law and George Washington University - Department of Political Science
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5,622
5.
How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 642
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 20 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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4,712
6.
The Role of Women in the Nation and State Building Projects in South Sudan
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 13 Apr 2017
Working Paper Series
The Zambakari Advisory, LLC
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4,511
7.
Is There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? Comparative Results from 59 Nations
Texas Review of Law and Politics, Vol. 13
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 06 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
Independence Institute, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent
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3,945
8.
China’s Social Credit Systems and Public Opinion: Explaining High Levels of Approval
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
Free University of Berlin (FUB)
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3,922
9.
Just How Capitalist is China?
MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4699-08
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 10 Apr 2008
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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2,765
10.
The Special Court of the Clergy (Dādgāh-Ye Vizheh-Ye Ruhāniyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 24 May 2010
Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
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2,633
11.
Government Control of the Media
Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, pp. 163-171, October 2014.
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 15 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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2,602
12.
China’s Turn Against Law
American Journal of Comparative Law, 2011, Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-03-01
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 23 Feb 2011
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University - School of Law
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2,558
13.
China After the Reform Era
Journal of Democracy, Vol. 26, 2015
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Fordham University - School of Law
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2,148
14.
Erecting New Constitutional Cultures: The Problems & Promise of Constitutionalism Post-Arab Spring
36 Boston College International & Comparative Law Review 219
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 14 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 06 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University
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2,101
15.
How Badly Flawed is Chinese Economic Data? The Opening Bid is $1 Trillion
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 14 Aug 2013
Working Paper Series
Fulbright University Vietnam
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2,048
16.
How Democracy Dies (in Poland): A Case Study of Anti-Constitutional Populist Backsliding
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 18/01
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
The University of Sydney Law School
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2,035
17.
Principles of the Islamic Political System
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 15 Nov 2013
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
The Quranic Teachings Foundation
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1,949
18.
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Number of pages: 134
Posted: 31 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2015
Working Paper Series
WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Institute of Political Economy and Governance, Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona, University of Michigan Law School and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
There are 3 versions of this paper
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Number of pages: 134
Posted: 31 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2015
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1,932
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5330
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 21 Jul 2015
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58
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9453
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 02 May 2013
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1
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1,932
19.
Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
American Political Science Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 1-26, 2011
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 10 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 25 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Hoover Institution and Political Science and University of Washington - Department of Political Science
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1,927
20.
Taxation, Political Accountability, and Foreign Aid: Lessons from Somaliland
Journal of Development Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 08 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Vanderbilt Center for Study of Democratic Institutions
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1,884
21.
Crisis, Coercion, and Authoritarian Durability: Explaining Diverging Responses to Anti-Regime Protest in Egypt and Iran
Prepared for presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 31 August 2012
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 08 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan, University of Toronto and Harvard University
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1,881
22.
Democratization and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2007
APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 13 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Madison and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,849
23.
The Middle East and North Africa’s Resilient Monarchs
Journal of Politics, Volume 74(3), July 2012
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - Department of Political Science
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1,752
24.
Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Information Technologies and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 28 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Washington - Department of Communication
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1,687
25.
After the Arab Spring: Democratic Aspirations and State Failure
Number of pages: 89
Posted: 20 Jul 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law
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1,671
26.
Informational Autocrats
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 26 Jul 2018
Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Sciences Po and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Political Science
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1,660
27.
When to Overthrow Your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 5, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-46, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 406
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 07 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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1,657
28.
Why Do Inefficient Innovation Institutions Exist in Russia and Ukraine? Mechanisms for Correcting Them
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 07 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
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1,652
29.
Totalitarianism Through Newspeak and Doublethink: An Evaluation Through George Orwell's 1984
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 13 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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1,650
30.
Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks
Forthcoming, The Journal of Democracy, April 2017, HKS Working Paper No. RWP17-012
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 16 Mar 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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1,638
31.
Beyond the Wall: Mapping Twitter in China
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-14
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 07 Mar 2017
Working Paper Series
Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law; Michigan State University, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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1,606
32.
The Growth of Global Internet Censorship and Circumvention: A Survey
Communications of the International Information Management Association (CIIMA), Volume 11, Issue 2, 2011
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 01 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Quinnipiac University
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1,581
33.
Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 28 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 27 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Hoover Institution and Political Science and University of Washington - Department of Political Science
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1,536
34.
The Democratic Coup d’État
Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 05 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Lewis & Clark Law School
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1,510
35.
Determinants of Nationalization in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 27 (2): 301-323, 2011.
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 07 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Sciences Po, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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1,455
36.
Why Not Taxation and Representation? British Politics and the American Revolution
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Indiana University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Why Not Taxation and Representation? British Politics and the American Revolution
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
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1,407
Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
NBER Working Paper No. w22724
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Oct 2016
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22
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1,407
37.
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33
Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 27 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 01 Nov 2015
Accepted Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
There are 3 versions of this paper
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany, 1919-33
Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 27 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 01 Nov 2015
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1,387
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
NBER Working Paper No. w19201
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 03 Jul 2013
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34
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9595
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 13 Aug 2013
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1,387
38.
Personal Ties, Meritocracy, and China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 07 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 25 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
University of San Francisco and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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1,373
39.
Informal Institutions, Collective Action, and Public Investment in Rural China
Forthcoming, American Political Science Review, MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2014-6
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 25 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 20 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University and Peking University - China Center for Economic Research (CCER)
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1,369
40.
The Role of Authority
Philosophers' Imprint, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 201
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 May 2010
Last Revised: 29 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan Law School
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1,361
41.
Searching for Internet Freedom in China: A Case Study on Google's China Experience
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2013
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 02 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law, National Taiwan University and Independent
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1,358
42.
The Party as Polity, the Communist Party, and the Chinese Constitutional State: A Theory of State-Party Constitutionalism
Penn State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-2009
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 10 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) – Penn State Law
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1,350
43.
Typology of Institutions: Introduction to the Series
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 12 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
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1,337
44.
Secession and Self-Determination
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CONSTITITIONAL LAW, pp.1057, Michel Rosenfeld, Andras Sajo, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 03 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Bologna School of Law
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1,331
45.
Typology of Institutions - Theory: Classification of Institutions via the Methods for Transmission and Modification of Knowledge
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 05 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
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1,329
46.
Individual Responsibility for Crimes Under International Law: The Un Ad Hoc Tribunals and the International Criminal Court
The Summer School on International Criminal Law, 2005
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 24 Mar 2010
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Stockholm University - Faculty of Law
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1,320
47.
From the Fragrant Harbour to Occupy Central: Hong Kong's Democratic Development & 'Rule of Law' Discourse
[2015] 9(3) Journal of Parliamentary & Political Law 519-567
, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016-02
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 13 Jan 2016
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law
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1,312
48.
The Great Debate of the Two Intellectual Giants in Middle Eastern Studies of Postcolonial Era: A Comparative Study on the Schemata of Edward Said and Bernard Lewis
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 01 Oct 2011
Working Paper Series
Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort)
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1,292
49.
The Three Pillars of Stability - Towards an Explanation for the Durability of Autocratic Regimes in East Asia
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 11 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Humboldt University of Berlin
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1,278
50.
Institutions and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China
Comparative Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 02 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University, Political Science, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Fudan University
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1,247
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