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14 January, 2025

Degrees of Incommensurability and the Sequence Argument

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Parfit (2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnan

Type of publication: Working papers | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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20 September, 2024

Incommensurability, the sequence argument, and the Pareto principle

Philosophical Studies Abstract Parfit (Theoria 82:110–127, 2016) responded to the Sequence Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion by introducing imprecise equality. However, Parfit’s notion of imprecise degrees of incommensurabilityeveryone

Type of publication: Journal articles | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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02 February, 2018

Women's rights in democratic transitions: A global sequence analysis, 1900–2012.

European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12201 Abstract What determines countries’ successful transition to democracy? This article explores the impact of granting civil

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Wang Y-T, Sundström A, Jansson F & Lindberg SI
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19 March, 2021

Sequences of democracy and development

USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September 2020. AbstractScholars have long studied the correlation between democracy and development; yet, there is no

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Lindberg, Staffan, Mechkova, Valeriya & Berker Kavasoglu
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02 February, 2018

Completed: Sequences of Democratization

Why do some democratic transitions succeed and others do not? We attempt to identify which sequences lead to full and stable democracy and which sequences do not.

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06 September, 2019

Patrik Lindenfors: Sequences of democratization

Patrik Lindenfors, Associate Professor of Zoological Ecology. Abstract What explains successful democratization? We present a suggestion for a new solution that identifies the discrete beginning of a li

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29 May, 2018

Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang and Staffan I. Lindberg.
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13 February, 2020

Establishing pathways to democracy using domination analysis

Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 95. Abstract How does the order in which liberalization unfolds affect the likelihood for a successful democratic transition? Dahl was among the first

Type of publication: Working papers | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Edgell AB, Boese VA, Maerz SF & Lindberg SI
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04 July, 2016

What insights can data visualization techniques generate?

Visualizing information is a way to communicate scientific results efficiently and in an appealing way. This is particularly important if scientists want to communicate their results not only to their

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27 February, 2018

Democracy first, and then civil rights for women?

The year is 2010 when the Arab Spring begins in North Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. The protesters’ calls for democracy spread from country to country during 2011 and there was a strong belief

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