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Overview

Joseph Wright is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research broadly encompasses social sciences, with a focus on subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and education.

The researcher has explored several main topics, particularly highlighting electoral systems and political participation, political conflict and governance, politics and society in Latin America, children's rights and participation, ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare, child and adolescent health, and migration and labor dynamics.

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • How Personalist Politics Is Changing Democracies, 2021, Journal of democracy
  • The Varieties of Coups D'état: Introducing the Colpus Dataset, 2021, International Studies Quarterly
  • Personalist ruling parties in democracies, 2021, Democratization
  • Personalization of Power and Mass Uprisings in Dictatorships, 2022, British Journal of Political Science
  • Reshaping the Threat Environment: Personalism, Coups, and Assassinations, 2022, Comparative Political Studies

Joseph Wright frequently collaborates with several scholars, including Abel Escribà-Folch, Covadonga Meseguer, John Chin, David B. Carter, and Erica Frantz.

The researcher's work has been published in various venues, with multiple publications appearing in Harvard Dataverse, Journal of democracy, and Comparative Political Studies. Other publication venues include International Studies Quarterly and Democratization.

In addition to articles, Joseph Wright has authored books published by well-known academic presses. Princeton University Press has published two editions of "Migration and Democracy" in 2022, and Rowman & Littlefield published "Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état" in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Autocratic breakdown and regime transitions: A new data set

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • Do Authoritarian Institutions Constrain? How Legislatures Affect Economic Growth and Investment

    Joseph Wright

  • How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes

    Joseph Wright

  • Dealing with Tyranny: International Sanctions and the Survival of Authoritarian Rulers

    Abel Escribà-Folch;Joseph Wright

  • Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival

    Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz;Barbara Geddes

  • The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid

    Joseph Wright;Matthew Winters

  • Authoritarian Institutions and Regime Survival: Transitions to Democracy and Subsequent Autocracy

    Joseph Wright;Abel Escribà-Folch

  • How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • How Dictatorships Work

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • Foreign Aid Allocation Tactics and Democratic Change in Africa

    Simone Dietrich;Joseph Wright

  • To Invest or Insure? How Authoritarian Time Horizons Impact Foreign Aid Effectiveness

    Joseph Wright

  • Remittances and Democratization

    Abel Escribà-Folch;Covadonga Meseguer;Joseph Wright

  • Terrorism In Dictatorships

    Deniz Aksoy;David B. Carter;Joseph Wright

  • Military Rule

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  • Political Competition and Democratic Stability in New Democracies

    Joseph Wright

  • Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival

    Abel Escribà-Folch;Joseph Wright

  • Are coups good for democracy

    George Derpanopoulos;Erica Frantz;Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright

  • Aid Effectiveness and the Politics of Personalism

    Joseph Wright

  • Terrorism and the fate of dictators

    Deniz Aksoy;David B. Carter;Joseph Wright

  • The Global Rise of Personalized Politics: It's Not Just Dictators Anymore

    Andrea Kendall-Taylor;Erica Frantz;Joseph Wright

  • Autocratic Legislatures and Expropriation Risk

    Matthew Charles Wilson;Joseph Wright

  • Personalization of Power and Repression in Dictatorships

    Erica Frantz;Andrea Kendall-Taylor;Joseph Wright;Xu Xu

  • How personalist politics is changing democracies

    Erica Frantz;Andrea Kendall-Taylor;Carisa Nietsche;Joseph Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Geddes
Barbara Geddes University of California, Los Angeles
Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Anna Lührmann
Anna Lührmann Federal Foreign Office
Matthew S. Winters
Matthew S. Winters University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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