On 2 April 2018, Egypt’s Electoral Commission declared incumbent Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi the winner of the presidential election with 97 per cent of the vote. However, since no real contenders were allowed before and during the elections, the ballot was more of a referendum on al-Sisi’s second term…
The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2017 and the National People’s Congress in March 2018 rung in a new era of political development in the People’s Republic of China. The sessions led to a plethora of ideological, constitutional, organisational, and personnel…
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…
On 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt severed their diplomatic relations with Qatar, alleging that the emirate was pursuing collaboration with Iran. An ultimatum to stop this course followed. However, these moves were motivated more by Saudi Arabia’s…
On 2 April 2018, Egypt’s Electoral Commission declared incumbent Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi the winner of the presidential election with 97 per cent of the vote. However, since no real contenders were allowed before and during the elections, the ballot was more of a referendum on al-Sisi’s second term…
The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2017 and the National People’s Congress in March 2018 rung in a new era of political development in the People’s Republic of China. The sessions led to a plethora of ideological, constitutional, organisational, and personnel…
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…
On 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt severed their diplomatic relations with Qatar, alleging that the emirate was pursuing collaboration with Iran. An ultimatum to stop this course followed. However, these moves were motivated more by Saudi Arabia’s…
On 2 April 2018, Egypt’s Electoral Commission declared incumbent Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi the winner of the presidential election with 97 per cent of the vote. However, since no real contenders were allowed before and during the elections, the ballot was more of a referendum on al-Sisi’s second term…
The National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2017 and the National People’s Congress in March 2018 rung in a new era of political development in the People’s Republic of China. The sessions led to a plethora of ideological, constitutional, organisational, and personnel…
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…
