

Tore Wig
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@torewig
Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo. Research Professor at PRIO. Armed conflict, democracy and dictatorship, quantitative methods.




🚨New working paper: Based on a conjoint experiment from 32 countries, citizens - quite uniformly - value what the typical electoral autocrat claims to provide: elected leaders & (economic) safety, while commitment to executive constraints is much weaker. osf.io/preprints/osf/…








Industrialization & Democracy - a remarkably important piece of research which changes your way of thinking about democratisation by pointing to the structural nature of industrialisation and democratic processes doi.org/10.1353/wp.202… - by @samvannoort




South Korea's president warned today that North Korea's involvement in the war in Ukraine poses a "grave security threat" to the world. trib.al/k4qHeh1