How are economic conditions related to moments of political transition? This paper considers that transitions comprise changes not suitably categorized as discrete events, so that scholarship benefits from weighing the process and how economic conditions affect actors’ credibility and...

What are the effects of weak economic performance in East and Southeast Asia? In particular, does weak performance lead to citizens’ dissatisfaction and, correspondingly, increase preference for stronger governments who may achieve economic targets more quickly? Recent elections in...

How does political trust affect the competing pressures of policy versus political performance in emergent democracies? Studies suggest that political trust buffers against these pressures, but empirical evidence is lacking in regard to if or how, given the focus in the literature on mature...

A large literature on government spending notes that new democracies generally change their spending patterns in favor of social spending to build support and in response to constituency demand. Yet, curiously, studies of new democracies also reveal volatility in their party system development...