The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes

Project Information

ELDAR

Grant agreement ID: 863486

DOI

10.3030/863486

Project closed

EC signature date 29 May 2020

Start date 1 June 2020

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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Publications

Development and decline of democracies: the role of institutional factors

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell
Published in: Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, 2024, Page(s) 379-394
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781803929095.00033

Political Regimes

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Social Policies in the Global South, 2026, Page(s) 54-67, ISBN 9780191992025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/9780191992025.003.0005

Business case for democracy

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, 2026, Page(s) 31-34, ISBN 9781035307777
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Teaching autocracy to undergraduate versus graduate students

Author(s): Jacob Nyrup
Published in: Teaching Autocracy and Autocratic Politics, 2026, ISBN 9781035353453
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Economic development and autocratization

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization, 2024, Page(s) 79-93, ISBN 9781032308333
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003306900-8

War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party

Author(s): Alexander De Juan; Felix Haass; Carlo Koos; Sascha Riaz; Thomas Tichelbaecker
Published in: American Political Science Review, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0003-0554
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s000305542300014x

Authoritarian multiparty governments

Author(s): Laure Bokobza, Jacob Nyrup
Published in: Democratization, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 1669-1694, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2024.2338858

Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, Amanda B. Edgell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg
Published in: PS: Political Science & Politics, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 162-177, ISSN 1049-0965
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s104909652300077x

Successful liberal democracy as a self-reinforcing condition

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: Journal of European Public Policy, 2026, Page(s) 1-30, ISSN 1350-1763
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2026.2657997

The Partial Effectiveness of Indoctrination in Autocracies: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic

Author(s): Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Jan Pierskalla
Published in: World Politics, 2021, ISSN 1086-3338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0043887121000095

Dimensions of State Capacity and Modes of Democratic Breakdown

Author(s): David Delfs Erbo Andersen, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Svend-Erik Skaaning
Published in: Political Studies, Issue 74, 2026, Page(s) 815-840, ISSN 0032-3217
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00323217251344758

Governing for Growth? Economic Performance and Finance Minister Survival in Democracies and Autocracies

Author(s): Jonas Willibald Schmid, Jacob Nyrup
Published in: Political Research Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 1065-9129
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/10659129261445888

Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States

Author(s): Philipp M. Lutscher, Karsten Donnay
Published in: Perspectives on Politics, Issue 23, 2025, Page(s) 1426-1443, ISSN 1537-5927
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s153759272400272x

A Difficult Test for Hard Propaganda: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Venezuela

Author(s): Philipp Lutscher, Karsten Donnay
Published in: Journal of Peace Research, Issue 62(2), 2026, Page(s) 462-478, ISSN 1460-3578
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/x7cav

Standing with Ukraine? How citizens trade off self-interest and principles in supporting war-torn international partners

Author(s): Troels Bøggild, Sascha Göbel, Philipp Lutscher, Jacob Nyrup
Published in: Research & Politics, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2053-1680
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/20531680241252399

Citizen Action and Elite Responses: Opposition Mass Movements and Regime Change From Within, 1900–2019

Author(s): Vilde Lunnan Djuve, Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, Issue 69, 2026, Page(s) 1798-1826, ISSN 0022-0027
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00220027251318938

Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?

Author(s): Jonas Willibald Schmid
Published in: Democratization, Issue 32, 2025, Page(s) 1565-1588, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2476183

Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Data Collection: Lessons from the Construction of Three Education Datasets

Author(s): Adrián Del Río, Woseeok Kim, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Anja Neundorf, Agustina S. Paglayan, Eugenia Nazrullaeva
Published in: Perspectives on Politics, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1537-5927
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592725103058

Online repression and tactical evasion: evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger protests in Egypt

Author(s): Neil Ketchley; Philipp Lutscher
Published in: Democratization, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21601869

Regime Support Groups and Welfare State Eligibility, 1860- 1955

Author(s): Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig, Sirianne Dahlum, Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: World Politics, 2026, ISSN 2392-2192
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right

Author(s): Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Julian Voß
Published in: British Journal of Political Science, Issue 55, 2025, ISSN 0007-1234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s000712342510077x

Mass Mobilization in the Modern Era: Introducing the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019

Author(s): Marianne Dahl, Sirianne Dahlum, Hanne Fjelde, Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Carina Strøm-Sedgwick, Tore Wig
Published in: Comparative Political Studies, 2026, ISSN 0010-4140
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00104140251369330

The Political Effects of Witnessing State Atrocities: Evidence from the Nazi Death Marches

Author(s): Alexander De Juan, Christian Gläßel, Felix Haass, Adam Scharpf
Published in: Comparative Political Studies, 2023, ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00104140231178736

Hot topics: Denial-of-Service attacks on news websites in autocracies

Author(s): Philipp Lutscher
Published in: Political Science Research and Methods, 2021, ISSN 2049-8470
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/psrm.2021.68

Who Rules? Support Coalitions and Regime Survival, 1789–2020

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus Bergli Rasmussen, Tore Wig
Published in: Comparative Political Studies, 2026, ISSN 0010-4140
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00104140251369338

Constrainers vs Enablers? : Fiscal Deficits and the Political Survival of Finance Ministers Across Regime Types

Author(s): Jonas Willibald Schmid, Lasse Aaskoven
Published in: Political Studies, 2026, ISSN 0032-3217
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00323217251378842

Consolidating Progress: The Selection of Female Ministers in Autocracies and Democracies

Author(s): JACOB NYRUP, HIKARU YAMAGISHI, STUART BRAMWELL
Published in: American Political Science Review, Issue 118, 2024, Page(s) 724-743, ISSN 0003-0554
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s000305542300062x

Blame Shifting in Autocracies following Large-Scale Disasters: Evidence from Turkey

Author(s): Edward Goldring, Jonas Willibald Schmid, Fulya Apaydin
Published in: Perspectives on Politics, 2025, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1537-5927
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592725102120

The Effect of Wartime Legacies on Electoral Mobilization after Civil War

Author(s): Felix Haass, Martin Ottmann
Published in: The Journal of Politics, 2022, ISSN 0022-3816
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1086/718976

Economic Crisis and Regime Transitions from Within

Author(s): Vilde Lunnan Djuve; Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: Journal of Peace Research, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3491861

Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset

Author(s): Adrián del Río, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Philipp M. Lutscher
Published in: Comparative Political Studies, 2025, ISSN 0010-4140
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00104140241252075

Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Palina Kolvani
Published in: World Politics, Issue 76, 2024, Page(s) 543-593, ISSN 1086-3338
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/wp.2024.a933071

When Censorship Works: Exploring the Resilience of News Websites to Online Censorship

Author(s): Philipp Lutscher
Published in: British Journal of Political Science, 2023, ISSN 0007-1234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0007123422000722

Behind the Throne: Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020

Author(s): Carl Henrik Knutsen, Sirianne Dahlum, Magnus B Rasmussen, Tore Wig
Published in: British Journal of Political Science, Issue 55, 2025, ISSN 0007-1234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0007123424000656

The politics behind political science: A cross-national perspective

Author(s): Jens Jungblut, Nils B. Weidmann, Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: European Political Science, 2026, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 1680-4333
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1017/s1682098326100241

Signals from the Ballot Box&nbsp; Elections and Elite Purges in Authoritarian Regimes

Author(s): Jonas Willibald Schmid
Published in: SSRN, 2025, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: SSRN
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5428775

Global Trends and Expert Perceptions: Pessimism and the Assessment of Democratic Backsliding

Author(s): Kyle L. Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, John Gerring, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Yunus Orhan
Published in: 2025
Publisher: V-Dem Institute

Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies

Author(s): Magnus B. Rasmussen, Carl Henrik Knutsen
Published in: Elements in Political Economy, 2023, ISBN 9781108983334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108983334

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