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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11,213
2.
Search for Identity: Turkey's Identity Crisis
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Independent
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9,121
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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8,420
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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5,946
5.
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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5,455
6.
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
Freie Universität, Berlin
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5,352
7.
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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5,227
8.
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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5,061
9.
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 InstituteDenver University - Sturm College of Law, College of William and Mary - Department of Economics and Independent ResearchIndependent
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4,017
10.
Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals
Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 30 (2021), Issue 127, pp. 85-101; published online: 18 May 2020, DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2020.1766911
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 17 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University, Law School
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3,882
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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2,996
12.
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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2,863
13.
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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2,849
14.
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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2,814
15.
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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2,793
16.
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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2,663
17.
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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2,630
18.
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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2,366
19.
A Theory of Informational Autocracy
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 26 Jul 2019
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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2,282
20.
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, New Economic SchoolInstitute 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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2,252
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 21 Jul 2015
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69
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 02 May 2013
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2
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2,252
21.
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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2,234
22.
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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2,228
23.
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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2,204
24.
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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2,166
25.
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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2,064
26.
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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1,956
27.
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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1,941
28.
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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1,886
29.
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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1,841
30.
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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1,831
31.
Personal Ties, Meritocracy, and China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 07 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 26 Jul 2021
Working Paper Series
University of San Francisco and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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1,816
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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1,809
33.
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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1,802
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
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,709
35.
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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1,663
36.
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
Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)Independent Research Group “Analytics in Economics and Security” and Vinnitsa National Technical University (VNTU)
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1,663
37.
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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1,615
38.
Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Working Paper Series
Ambrose Alli University
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1,602
39.
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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1,583
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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1,561
41.
Illiberalism Within: Rule of Law Backsliding in the EU
Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies volume 19 December 2017 3-47
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Middlesex University - School of Law and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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1,560
42.
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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1,554
43.
Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics
Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 657, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 689
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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1,542
44.
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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1,506
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
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2021
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36
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 13 Aug 2013
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1
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1,506
45.
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)Peking University - CCER
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1,502
46.
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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1,500
47.
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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1,496
48.
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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1,470
49.
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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1,469
Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
NBER Working Paper No. w22724
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 05 Aug 2021
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29
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1,469
50.
The Deep State: An Emerging Concept in Comparative Politics
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Puget Sound
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1,461
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