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Mapping Political Regime Typologies
Mapping Political Regime Typologies

Author(s): Jeroen Van den Bosch
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: political regimes; typologies; measures of democratization; methodology

Summary/Abstract: The research field of regime theory has seen a proliferation of different approaches and typologies to explain the ever-changing reality. This paper has created a typology of these regime typologies and their respective datasets in order to describe and analyze their various merits for research. Finally this paper maps various typologies according to their most common research areas. The aim is to maximize the application potential each of specific typology, highlight their limits and aid scholars in their selection of typologies for qualitative or quantitative research in order to get a better understanding of democratization processes or regime theories.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 111-124
  • Page Count: 14