This article attempts to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms of government by proposing a theoretical framework of five dimensions of executive appointment and dismissal: the hereditary, military, ruling party, direct election, and confidence dimensions, respectively. Relying on the Varieties of Democracy data, the article provides measures of these five dimensions for 3,937 individual heads of state and 2,874 heads of government from 192 countries across the globe from 1789 to the present.
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Authoritarian regime and democratic forms of government
Jan Teorell and Staffan Lindberg have written the article ”Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016”, which has been published in the journal “Perspectives on Politics”.