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John D. Robertson
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 16
Citations - 495
John D. Robertson is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comparative politics & Cabinet (file format). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 16 publications receiving 474 citations.
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Formation and Success of New Parties: A Cross-National Analysis
Robert Harmel,John D. Robertson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the universe of 233 new parties formed in 19 West European and Anglo-American democracies from 1960 through 1980, using data on those parties to address several hypothesees.
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Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies
TL;DR: Democracy Transformed? Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies as discussed by the authors, edited by Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan E. Scarrow.
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Government Stability and Regime Support: A Cross-National Analysis
Robert Harmel,John D. Robertson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the direction and strength of the hypothesized bond between government stability and support for the democratic regime were investigated. But, the relationship between government change and support of "radical change" in the system may be spurious, resulting from relationships of both variables with macroeconomic performance.
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Political Markets, Bond Markets, and the Effects of Uncertainty: A Cross-National Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect that political markets have upon capital markets' performance as measured by the market risks within the long-term government bond markets in nineteen democracies of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 1955 and 1992.
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Inflation, Unemployment, and Government Collapse: A Poisson Application
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Poisson method of determining probabilities of discrete events, and found that increasing probabilities of government collapse are significantly associated with rising inflation and unemployment in European democracies between January 1958 and December 1979.