Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Albertus Michael & Menaldo Victor

Author:Albertus, Michael & Menaldo, Victor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Measurement Strategy for Explaining Constitutional Change

This section outlines our measurement strategy for testing the hypotheses laid out in the previous section.

Measuring Constitutional Change

The key dependent variable in the analyses that follow is the annulment or amendment of an autocratic constitution. This is a binary variable that is coded as a “1” in the year an autocratic constitution is annulled or amended under democracy and “0” otherwise.4 As in the previous chapter, data on the origins of constitutions as well as constitutional changes are taken from the Comparative Constitutions Project. Data on regime type are again from Cheibub et al. (2010) for 1946–2006 and Boix et al. (2013) for the 1800–1945 period.

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