Yuko Sato
Biographic Data
| ID | 3717664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuko Sato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Sato |
| SIGNATURE | SATO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7458-6134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impact of democracy on economic, human, and societal development
How does democracy affect economic, human, and societal development? We review the scientific evidence on this question from 2010 to present, finding that democracy improves economic growth, population health, gender equality, and peace. However, we find that empirical findings are either mixed or null for democracy’s effect on economic inequality and poverty, corruption, and education. Our review goes beyond the summary statistics of meta-analys…
Chains in episodes of democratization
How do democratic institutions develop during episodes of liberalization in autocracies? Existing research has theorized about the long process of institutional change that makes up regime transitions, but existing quantitative methods are not equipped to analyze these multi-stage patterns of development across many variables. In this research note, we introduce a new methodology, Analysis of Chains (AOC), that allows for such analysis. Unlike pr…
Disinformation and Regime Survival
Disinformation has transformed into a global issue and while it is seen as a growing concern to democracy today, autocrats have long used it as a part of their propaganda repertoire. Yet, no study has tested the effect of disinformation on regime stability and breakdown beyond country-specific studies. Drawing on novel measures from the Digital Society Project (DSP) estimating the levels of disinformation disseminated by governments across 148 co…
Defiance in the Face of Autocratization. Democracy Report 2023
State of the world 2022: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization
This article presents the state of democracy in the world in 2022 using the most recent Varieties of Democracy dataset (V13). There are four main findings. First, the level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen is down to 1986-levels and 72% of the world's population live in autocracies. Second, the third wave of autocratization reaches a new height with 42 countries autocratizing. By contrast, only 14 countries are democratizing. Th…
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland
Does protest spur the government to act at the regional or local level? Gun control in the United States offers a promising case for studying this question, due to considerable variation in both protest and policy‐making activity following the mass shooting in Parkland, FL in early 2018. We use an original weekly panel dataset of progress on gun control and pro‐gun legislation in all states between 2017 and 2019, paired with weekly protest march …
State of the world 2021: Autocratization Changing Its Nature
This article analyses the state of democracy around the world in 2021. The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 was down to 1989 levels. In 2021, autocracies were on the rise, harbouring 70% of the world population, or 5.4 billion people. There was also a record number of countries autocratizing in 2021: 33 countries, home to 36% of the global population. In recent years, the EU seems to be facing its own wave of autoc…
Resistance to populism
Populist leaders mobilize supporters to accomplish the political transformations they seek to achieve. However, once they are in office, populist leaders also encounter mobilizations against them because of their exclusionary rhetoric as well as their attack on existing democratic norms. These populists' practices represent an erosion of (or threat to) political rights and move oppositional groups into struggle. Therefore, an increase in mobiliza…
Echoes of a fading past: Authoritarian legacies and far-right voting
Elite coordination and popular protest: The Joint Effect on Democratic Change
Authoritarian elections offer a window of contestation where a democratic opposition may increase the pressure on authoritarian regimes to implement democratic change. Pressure may come either from popular protest (vertical threats), or from a coordinated counter-elite (lateral threats). Previous research on electoral authoritarianism has emphasized the importance of both lateral and vertical threats for democratization, but have not theorized ho…
State of the world 2021: Autocratization Changing Its Nature
This article analyses the state of democracy around the world in 2021. The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 was down to 1989 levels. In 2021, autocracies were on the rise, harbouring 70% of the world population, or 5.4 billion people. There was also a record number of countries autocratizing in 2021: 33 countries, home to 36% of the global population. In recent years, the EU seems to be facing its own wave of autoc…
State of the world 2022: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization
This article presents the state of democracy in the world in 2022 using the most recent Varieties of Democracy dataset (V13). There are four main findings. First, the level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen is down to 1986-levels and 72% of the world's population live in autocracies. Second, the third wave of autocratization reaches a new height with 42 countries autocratizing. By contrast, only 14 countries are democratizing. Th…
Elite coordination and popular protest: The Joint Effect on Democratic Change
Authoritarian elections offer a window of contestation where a democratic opposition may increase the pressure on authoritarian regimes to implement democratic change. Pressure may come either from popular protest (vertical threats), or from a coordinated counter-elite (lateral threats). Previous research on electoral authoritarianism has emphasized the importance of both lateral and vertical threats for democratization, but have not theorized ho…
Echoes of a fading past: Authoritarian legacies and far-right voting
Resistance to populism
Populist leaders mobilize supporters to accomplish the political transformations they seek to achieve. However, once they are in office, populist leaders also encounter mobilizations against them because of their exclusionary rhetoric as well as their attack on existing democratic norms. These populists' practices represent an erosion of (or threat to) political rights and move oppositional groups into struggle. Therefore, an increase in mobiliza…
Disinformation and Regime Survival
Disinformation has transformed into a global issue and while it is seen as a growing concern to democracy today, autocrats have long used it as a part of their propaganda repertoire. Yet, no study has tested the effect of disinformation on regime stability and breakdown beyond country-specific studies. Drawing on novel measures from the Digital Society Project (DSP) estimating the levels of disinformation disseminated by governments across 148 co…
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland
Does protest spur the government to act at the regional or local level? Gun control in the United States offers a promising case for studying this question, due to considerable variation in both protest and policy‐making activity following the mass shooting in Parkland, FL in early 2018. We use an original weekly panel dataset of progress on gun control and pro‐gun legislation in all states between 2017 and 2019, paired with weekly protest march …
Elite coordination and popular protest: The Joint Effect on Democratic Change
Authoritarian elections offer a window of contestation where a democratic opposition may increase the pressure on authoritarian regimes to implement democratic change. Pressure may come either from popular protest (vertical threats), or from a coordinated counter-elite (lateral threats). Previous research on electoral authoritarianism has emphasized the importance of both lateral and vertical threats for democratization, but have not theorized ho…
Echoes of a fading past: Authoritarian legacies and far-right voting
Protest and state policy agendas: Marches and gun policy after Parkland
Does protest spur the government to act at the regional or local level? Gun control in the United States offers a promising case for studying this question, due to considerable variation in both protest and policy‐making activity following the mass shooting in Parkland, FL in early 2018. We use an original weekly panel dataset of progress on gun control and pro‐gun legislation in all states between 2017 and 2019, paired with weekly protest march …
State of the world 2021: Autocratization Changing Its Nature
This article analyses the state of democracy around the world in 2021. The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 was down to 1989 levels. In 2021, autocracies were on the rise, harbouring 70% of the world population, or 5.4 billion people. There was also a record number of countries autocratizing in 2021: 33 countries, home to 36% of the global population. In recent years, the EU seems to be facing its own wave of autoc…
Resistance to populism
Populist leaders mobilize supporters to accomplish the political transformations they seek to achieve. However, once they are in office, populist leaders also encounter mobilizations against them because of their exclusionary rhetoric as well as their attack on existing democratic norms. These populists' practices represent an erosion of (or threat to) political rights and move oppositional groups into struggle. Therefore, an increase in mobiliza…
Defiance in the Face of Autocratization. Democracy Report 2023
State of the world 2022: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization
This article presents the state of democracy in the world in 2022 using the most recent Varieties of Democracy dataset (V13). There are four main findings. First, the level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen is down to 1986-levels and 72% of the world's population live in autocracies. Second, the third wave of autocratization reaches a new height with 42 countries autocratizing. By contrast, only 14 countries are democratizing. Th…
Disinformation and Regime Survival
Disinformation has transformed into a global issue and while it is seen as a growing concern to democracy today, autocrats have long used it as a part of their propaganda repertoire. Yet, no study has tested the effect of disinformation on regime stability and breakdown beyond country-specific studies. Drawing on novel measures from the Digital Society Project (DSP) estimating the levels of disinformation disseminated by governments across 148 co…
Impact of democracy on economic, human, and societal development
How does democracy affect economic, human, and societal development? We review the scientific evidence on this question from 2010 to present, finding that democracy improves economic growth, population health, gender equality, and peace. However, we find that empirical findings are either mixed or null for democracy’s effect on economic inequality and poverty, corruption, and education. Our review goes beyond the summary statistics of meta-analys…
Chains in episodes of democratization
How do democratic institutions develop during episodes of liberalization in autocracies? Existing research has theorized about the long process of institutional change that makes up regime transitions, but existing quantitative methods are not equipped to analyze these multi-stage patterns of development across many variables. In this research note, we introduce a new methodology, Analysis of Chains (AOC), that allows for such analysis. Unlike pr…
Democracy (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works)