Hahaha I love hearing someone else say “cluster in polity-space”. I use that phrase often but the other political scientists never do. It’s an incredibly useful framework for describing correlated variations and side-stepping pointless debates about definition.
That’s all spot on. Stable alternative models are rare and poor performing (Belgium, Lebanon, Bosnia, Libya).
The steel man for a democratic long run future: In the long run, the political system that survives longer should dominate. Once democracies pass a production threshold around 10,000 gdppc transitions become extremely rare. The half-life of a rich parliamentary system is really long > 200 years. By comparison autocracies have been unstable so far in all periods.
Hahaha I love hearing someone else say “cluster in polity-space”. I use that phrase often but the other political scientists never do. It’s an incredibly useful framework for describing correlated variations and side-stepping pointless debates about definition.
That’s all spot on. Stable alternative models are rare and poor performing (Belgium, Lebanon, Bosnia, Libya).
The steel man for a democratic long run future: In the long run, the political system that survives longer should dominate. Once democracies pass a production threshold around 10,000 gdppc transitions become extremely rare. The half-life of a rich parliamentary system is really long > 200 years. By comparison autocracies have been unstable so far in all periods.