Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions (73220021FY)

This is an in-depth summary of all lectures and readings we have had for the year 2023 in Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions for the second year course in Political Science (studied at the University of Amsterdam). Good luck for the exam!

This document summarises most materials covered in the course Democracies, Autocracies, and Transitions. It includes notes from all lectures and summaries of most mandatory readings. It covers the whole course of DAT and will allow you to study for your midterms and finals.

summary of all mandatory readings and articles of democracies autocracies and transitions: Przeworski, Sen 1999, Clark & Golder 2018, Gandhi 2008, Kendall-Taylor Frantz and Wright 2017, Gerschewski 2013, King 2013, Ang 2018, Bunce & wolchik 2010, Levitsky & Way 2002, Lipset and Seymour 1959, Geddes 2007, Teorell 2010, Gunitsky 2008, Levitsky & Way 2006, Bermeo 2016, Zoltan, Timur, Scheppele 2022.

This summary contains notes from all the lectures the University of Amsterdam gave for its Democracies, Autocracies and Transitions course (FY). Description given by the University of Amsterdam: In the first part of the course we discuss theories and empirical research on the emergence, stability and performance of democratic regimes, and we discuss different types of democratic systems. What are recent trends and is there a crisis of representative democracy? In what ways has the ability of ...

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This summary provides a comprehensive overview of everything covered both in the lectures and readings. It is a great guide that I myself used to study for the exam, and it had the answers for every question that was asked during the examination, so good luck studying!

Potential questions that could pop up in the DAT exam 2023 (based on readings and lectures).

In dept summary of the notes needed to pass the DAT exam 2023/2024.

This document provides a summary on readings of DAT, including the Key concepts and main take aways.

Notes for week 3