𝗖𝗼́𝗺𝗼 𝗻𝗼 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮. Estoy escribiendo algo sobre democracia, que toca en cuestiones conceptuales. Y me leí un paper de Coppedge, uno de los fundadores de V-Dem v-dem.net/media/publicat…

Discrepo en unos puntos centrales.👇

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆. I am writing something on democracy, that considers conceptual issues. And I read a paper by Coppedge, one of the founders of V-Dem v-dem.net/media/publicat…

I disagree on some key points.👇

This must have been generated by AI.

Poland's democracy score increased because V-Dem raters like the party that won the election; Italy's decreased because that do not like it?

En principio, no estoy en contra de medidas continuas de democracia (por encima de algún umbral). Pero no conozco ninguna medida continua que sea reproducible, es decir, por la cual todos los observadores expuestos a los mismos hechos deban llegar a la misma puntuación.

In principle, I am not against continuous measures of democracy (above some threshold). But I know of no continuous measure that is reproducible, that is, for which all observers exposed to the same facts must arrive at the same score.

Congratulations!!!

Isn't there always some past map that looks like divisions at the present?

Those of us who read Spanish have long learned from the writings of Norbert Lechner, a lucid and interesting thinker who wrote about politics, power & culture.

Now some of his works have been translated into English and can be downloaded for free here ➡️
library.oapen.org/bitstream/hand…

Mi paper sobre el efecto de los Estados semi-patrimoniales en las democracias de baja calidad pero duraderas de América Latina acaba de salir en 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.👇

Para una versión anterior➡️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

y versión en español➡️ researchgate.net/publication/37…

It was a lot of fun to talk about sovereign debt, foreign finance, and state building in historical perspective and the lessons we can draw for today. Thank you Dan Banik for having me on the In Pursuit of Development 🎙️🌍 show.

Thanks to Dalson Figueiredo for solving my problem with downloading the WID dataset, which is not user friendly.

Adam Przeworski This article of ours might be of interest: ponarseurasia.org/russian-milita…

I wonder what after Putin could be in Russia. Could it be worse? It would be interesting to hear from people who have informed views.

Does anyone have World Inequality Database (WID) saved in Stata? If yes, please send it to me at [email protected]. I have been trying to save it but cannot figure it out.

I wrote a few words to try to process the murder of Alexei Navalny. scottgehlbach.net/generational-t…

A brilliant paper. Answers questions I wondered about for a long time. Exceptionally thorough.

I wonder if they have the capacity to detect who reads it?

Note that this index considers only corruption in the public sector, which biases it in favor of countries where the public sector is smaller. I wonder how the US would rank on corruption in the private sector.

Excellent point.