Exchange: Confusing Categories, Shifting Targets

Issue Date October 2013
Volume 24
Issue 4
Page Numbers 161-67
file Print
external View Citation

Staffan Lindberg replies to Matthijs Bogaards’s critique, finding the latter’s methodology problematic and arguing that the evidence for association between repeated elections and democratization remains strong.

Further Reading

Volume 8, Issue 3

Serbia’s Opposition Speaks

Volume 18, Issue 4

Iran’s Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights

Observers who focus too much on elections have failed to grasp the maturation of Iranian civil society, even as hard-liners have come to dominate the government.

Volume 17, Issue 2

Electoral Systems Today: Iraq’s Year of Voting Dangerously

Iraq’s three elections in 2005 highlighted the role—but also the limits—of electoral-system design in managing potentially polarizing divisions.