Do Revolutions Create Terrible Regimes?
28 Pages Posted: 13 Jul 2012 Last revised: 2 Aug 2012
Date Written: 2012
Abstract
The conjecuture of this paper is that most revolutions produce undemocratic regimes. We take a list of revolutions, get Polity IV democracy and autocracy scores, then conduct a difference of means test that shows that undemocratic regimes are statistically significant from neutral and democratic regimes.
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Francisco, Ronald, Do Revolutions Create Terrible Regimes? (2012). APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2104514
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