Many African countries lack crucial institutional, economic, and societal preconditions for democracy. Despite these difficulties, electoral turnovers have been on the rise since 1990. When institutions alone are too weak to ensure political pluralism, civil society organisations perform important…
We present a data set on authoritarian regimes’ claims to legitimacy that is based on leading experts’ assessments of 98 states for the period 1991–2010. The experts assessed these regimes on the basis…
