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Matthew Charles Wilson
Researcher at University of South Carolina
Publications - 26
Citations - 388
Matthew Charles Wilson is an academic researcher from University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Legislature & Politics. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 26 publications receiving 301 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew Charles Wilson include Pennsylvania State University & University of Gothenburg.
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Autocracies and Terrorism: Conditioning Effects of Authoritarian Regime Type on Terrorist Attacks
TL;DR: This paper found that single-party authoritarian regimes consistently experience less domestic and international terrorism relative to military autocracies and democracies, and that party-based autocratic regimes have a wider range of coercion and co-option strategies that they can employ to address grievance and dissent than do other, more strategically restricted, regimes.
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Autocratic Legislatures and Expropriation Risk
TL;DR: The authors found that legislatures are correlated with lower expropriation risk in non-personalist dictatorships, but a higher risk of nationalization in personalist regimes, showing a consistent pattern between authoritarian institutions and property protections.
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State of the world 2017: autocratization and exclusion?
Anna Lührmann,Valeriya Mechkova,Sirianne Dahlum,Laura Maxwell,Moa Olin,Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca,Rachel Sigman,Matthew Charles Wilson,Staffan I. Lindberg +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence of a global trend of autocratization and show that men and wealthy groups tend to have a strong hold on political power in countries where 86% of the world population reside.
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A Discreet Critique of Discrete Regime Type Data
TL;DR: This paper analyzed three regime type data sets provided by Cheibub, Gandhi, and Vreeland, Hadenius and Teorell, and found that the limitations of discrete regime types for studying authoritarianism are discussed.
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Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyze patterns in the geographical focus of political science research across more than a century using a new database of titles and abstracts from 27,690 publications in eight major political science journals from their inception, and demonstrate that historically, political scientists concentrated their studies on a limited number of countries situated in North America and Western Europe.