Thomas Brambor

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Lund University

This article presents new evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about themselves, their territories, and their populations. We compile data on five institutions and policies: the regular implementation of a reliable census, the regular release of statistical yearbooks, the introduction of civil and population register...

This Note introduces the Heads of Government dataset, which provides summary information about the ideological orientation of heads of government (left, center, or right, with separately provided information about religious orientation) in 33 states in Western Europe, the Americas, and the Asia–Pacific region between 1870 and 2012. The Note also de...

What is the relationship between landholding inequality and rural unrest? And why does land reform that ostensibly addresses rural grievances sometimes exacerbate unrest? We advance the understanding of these longstanding questions by shifting the emphasis from how landholding inequality fuels rural grievances to how it captures the collective acti...

This dataset provides summary information about the ideological orientation of heads of government in 33 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region between 1870 and 2012. Further information and alternate versions of the data (excel files, and leader-year format) are available at http://www.reformcapacity.org/d...

This dataset provides summary information about the ideological orientation of heads of government in 33 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region between 1870 and 2012. Further information and alternate versions of the data (excel files, and leader-year format) are available at http://www.reformcapacity.org/d...

This dataset provides summary information about the ideological orientation of heads of government in 33 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Asia-Pacific region between 1870 and 2012. Further information and alternate versions of the data (excel files, and leader-year format) are available at http://www.reformcapacity.org/d...

What is the relationship between landholding inequality and rural unrest? And why does land reform that ostensibly addresses rural grievances sometimes exacerbate unrest? We advance the understanding of these longstanding questions by shifting the emphasis from how landholding inequality fuels rural grievances to how it captures the collective acti...

What is the importance of political parties for the fiscal behavior of subnational governments in Brazil? Existing studies have found little or no effect of political affiliation on spending patterns. We argue that the nonresults are due to methodological limitations, case selection, and an inappropriate understanding of the budget process at the l...

Do incumbents enjoy an electoral advantage in a context of institutional instability? In many consolidated democracies, such as the U.S. or the U.K., incumbency status is a critical factor for the success of candidates. In contrast, evidence from the developing world points to no advantage or even adverse effects of holding office for the electoral...

03/28/2008 -Comments welcome. Empirically, natural resource abundance has been found to be strongly associated with a host of negative outcomes in cross-country time-series analyses. We review the existing literature and nd that virtually all articles employing the ratio of primary commodity exports over GDP as the measure of resource abundance nd...

Recently Mozaffar et al. [Mozaffar, S., Scarritt, J.R., Galaich, G., 2003. Electoral institutions, ethnopolitical cleavages and party systems in Africa's emerging democracies. American Political Science Review 97, 379–390] presented evidence suggesting that African party systems are somehow different from party systems elsewhere in the world. In do...

Multiplicative interaction models are common in the quantitative political science literature. This is so for good reason. Institutional arguments frequently imply that the relationship between political inputs and outcomes varies depending on the institutional context. Models of strategic interaction typically produce conditional hypotheses as wel...

Multiplicative interaction models are common in the quantitative political science literature. This is so for good reason. Institutional arguments frequently imply that the relationship between political inputs and outcomes varies depending on the institutional context. Models of strategic interaction typically produce conditional hypotheses as wel...

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