SSRN Political Institutions: Non-Democratic Regimes eJournal

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

Glenn Harlan Reynolds

University of Tennessee College of Law

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2.

Search for Identity: Turkey's Identity Crisis

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Nov 2008

Working Paper Series

Semih Minareci

Independent

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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

Clark B. Lombardi

University of Washington School of Law

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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

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Clark B. Lombardi and Nathan J. Brown

University of Washington School of Law and George Washington University - Department of Political Science

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5.

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

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David B. Kopel, Carlisle E. Moody and Howard Ross Nemerov

Independence Institute, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent

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6.

Just How Capitalist is China?

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4699-08

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 10 Apr 2008

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Yasheng Huang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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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

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Mirjam Künkler

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

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8.

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

Carl F. Minzner

Fordham University - School of Law

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9.

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

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Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin

University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago - Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

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10.

How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, 2018

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 20 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Aziz Z. Huq and Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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11.

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

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Christopher Balding

Peking University - HSBC School of Business

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12.

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

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John J. Liolos

Boston College International & Comparative Law Review

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13.

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

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Stephen Haber and Victor A. Menaldo

Stanford University - Hoover Institution and Political Science and University of Washington - Department of Political Science

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14.

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

Nicholas Eubank

Independent

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15.

China After the Reform Era

Journal of Democracy, Vol. 26, 2015

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Carl F. Minzner

Fordham University - School of Law

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16.

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

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Victor A. Menaldo

University of Washington - Department of Political Science

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17.

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

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Sonya Yan Song, Robert Faris and John Kelly

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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18.

Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2011

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Stephen Haber and Victor A. Menaldo

Stanford University - Hoover Institution and Political Science and University of Washington - Department of Political Science

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19.

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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Maja Adena, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, Veronica Santarosa and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

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 (EHESS)

There are 3 versions of this paper

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20.

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

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Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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21.

Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Information Technologies and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Mar 2012

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Muzammil M. Hussain and Philip N. Howard

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Washington - Department of Communication

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22.

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

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Sergei M. Guriev, Anton Kolotilin and Konstantin Sonin

Sciences Po, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and University of Chicago - Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

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23.

Why Do Inefficient Innovation Institutions Exist in Russia and Ukraine? Mechanisms for Correcting Them

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Jan 2012

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Anatoliy A. Shiyan and Liliya O. Nikiforova

Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU) and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)

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24.

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

Jean Lachapelle, Lucan A. Way and Steven Levitsky

University of Toronto, University of Toronto and Harvard University

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25.

Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017

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Sebastian Galiani and Gustavo Torrens

University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Indiana University

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26.

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

Ozan O. Varol

Lewis & Clark Law School

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27.

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

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Jyh-An Lee, Ching-Yi Liu and Weiping Li

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Faculty of Law, National Taiwan University and Independent

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28.

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

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Edmund J. Malesky, Regina M. Abrami and Yu Zheng

Duke University, Political Science, Harvard Business School and University of Connecticut

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29.

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

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Scott Straus and Charlie Taylor

University of Wisconsin - Madison and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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30.

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

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Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao

University of California, San Diego and Peking University - China Center for Economic Research (CCER)

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31.

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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Shanker Satyanath, Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

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

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32.

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

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Larry Catá Backer

Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law

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33.

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

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Scott Hershovitz

University of Michigan Law School

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34.

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

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Reinhold Gallmetzer and Mark Klamberg

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Stockholm University - Faculty of Law

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35.

Iraq: From ‘Troubled Law of Occupation’ to Constitutional Order?

Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht, ed. by Irene Schneider and Thoralf Hanstein, Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung, Band 19 (Heidelberg: Peter Lang, 2006) pp. 21-43,

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 02 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Ebrahim Afsah

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law

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36.

Typology of Institutions: Introduction to the Series

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Nov 2012

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Anatoliy A. Shiyan and Liliya O. Nikiforova

Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU) and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)

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37.

The Rise and Fall of Chinese Legal Education

Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2013

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 12 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Carl F. Minzner

Fordham University - School of Law

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38.

Typology of Institutions - Theory: Classification of Institutions via the Methods for Transmission and Modification of Knowledge

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Jan 2013

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Anatoliy A. Shiyan and Liliya O. Nikiforova

Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU) and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)

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39.

The Growth of Global Internet Censorship and Circumvention: A Survey

Communications of the International Information Management Association (CIIMA), 2012, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2012

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Ramesh Subramanian

Quinnipiac University

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40.

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

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Susanna Mancini

University of Bologna School of Law

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41.

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

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Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort)

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42.

Xinfang: An Alternative to Formal Chinese Legal Institutions

Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 42, p. 103, 2006, Washington U. School of Law Working Paper No. 10-02-03

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 07 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Carl F. Minzner

Fordham University - School of Law

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43.

Beyond Remittances: Public Diplomacy and Kosovo's Diaspora

Xharra, B. and Wählisch. M., 2012. Beyond Remittances: Public Diplomacy and Kosovo‘s Diaspora. Pristina: Foreign Policy Club. ,

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 15 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Behar Xharra and Martin Waehlisch

Columbia University and Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law

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44.

The Deep State: An Emerging Concept in Comparative Politics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2015

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Patrick H. O'Neil

University of Puget Sound

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45.

What Scenarios for the Euro-Mediterranean in 2030 in the Wake of the Post-Arab Spring?

MEDPRO Policy Papers, No. 2, October 2011

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 08 Feb 2012

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Rym Ayadi and Carlo Sessa

HEC Montreal and Istituto di Studi per l’Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS)

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46.

What Will Happen to Hong Kong Kong after 2047?

California Western International Law Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2011, pp 37-60

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Jan 2014

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Danny Gittings

University of Hong Kong, College of Humanities and Law, School of Professional and Continuing Education

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47.

Authoritarian Deliberation on Chinese Internet

Jiang, M. (2010). Authoritarian deliberation on Chinese Internet. Electronic Journal of Communication, 20 (3&4).

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Min Jiang

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte

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48.

Strongmen and Straw Men: Authoritarian Regimes and the Initiation of International Conflict

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2011

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Jessica L.P. Weeks

University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Political Science

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49.

Rescuing Autocracy from Itself: China's Anti-Corruption Campaign

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2017

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Xi Lu and Peter L. Lorentzen

University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Berkeley

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50.

Access to Justice in China: Potentials, Limits, and Alternatives

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Sep 2009

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Fu Hualing

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law

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