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Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report

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Kouba, Karel

2024

Research & Politics

11 (3)

Imposing term limits on elected officials is expected to increase turnout due to enhanced competition by one theoretical perspective, while another predicts depressed turnout as a result of clientelist turnout buying. These ...

More Electoral Competition Without More Voter Participation: Quasi-Experimental Test of a Term Limit Reform in Ecuador

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Kouba, Karel

2024

Political Studies Review

22 (4)

Term limits are theoretically expected to boost voter participation which has been confirmed by multiple empirical examinations. This study uses a robust causal assessment within the difference-in-differences framework to ...

Democracy and Institutional Change in Times of Crises in Latin America

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Buben, Radek

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Kouba, Karel

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

16 (1)

Latin American democracies have gone through a series of perfect storms over the recent years. In what ways have these challenges transformed the institutional infrastructure of democracy? How have institutional reforms ...

Školské sestry sv. Františka za normalizace: mezi snahou uchovat identitu a zápasem o přežití

The School Sisters of St. Francis During Czechoslovak Normalisation:
A Strategy between Maintaining Identity and Fighting for Survival

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Řičář Libánská, Anna

2023

Historie - Otázky - Problémy

14 (2)

Tento článek zkoumá strategie, které umožnily řeholnicím a jejich kongregaci přizpůsobit se životu a službě v československém autoritářském režimu, se zaměřením na méně probádané období normalizace.

The Latin American Legislators Dataset

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Weiss, Michael

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Kouba, Karel

2025

Springer Nature

Scientific Data

12 (1)

This article describes a dataset of legislators in Latin America. It is a large data collection effort containing data on all elected legislators in the 18 Latin American countries with competitive elections since 1978 or ...

Legislative Turnover in Latin America: Introducing a New Dataset and Analyzing Its Temporal Dynamics

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Kouba, Karel

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Weiss, Michael

2025

Blackwell Publishing

Latin American Politics and Society

67 (3)

The article examines the patterns of turnover of Latin American legislators. It contributes (1) by introducing a large original dataset of turnover rates in 204 elections between 1985 and 2023 based on manually coded lists ...

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Understanding the effect of term limits on voter turnout: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Costa Rica based on a registered report

original article

open access

published version

Kouba, Karel

2024

Research & Politics

11

(3)

Imposing term limits on elected officials is expected to increase turnout due to enhanced competition by one theoretical perspective, while another predicts depressed turnout as a result of clientelist turnout buying. These ...

More Electoral Competition Without More Voter Participation: Quasi-Experimental Test of a Term Limit Reform in Ecuador

original article

open access

published version

Kouba, Karel

2024

Political Studies Review

22

(4)

Term limits are theoretically expected to boost voter participation which has been confirmed by multiple empirical examinations. This study uses a robust causal assessment within the difference-in-differences framework to ...

Democracy and Institutional Change in Times of Crises in Latin America

original article

open access

published version

Buben, Radek

Kouba, Karel

2024

Journal of Politics in Latin America

16

(1)

Latin American democracies have gone through a series of perfect storms over the recent years. In what ways have these challenges transformed the institutional infrastructure of democracy? How have institutional reforms ...

Školské sestry sv. Františka za normalizace: mezi snahou uchovat identitu a zápasem o přežití

The School Sisters of St. Francis During Czechoslovak Normalisation:A Strategy between Maintaining Identity and Fighting for Survival

original article

open access

published version

Řičář Libánská, Anna

2023

Historie - Otázky - Problémy

14

(2)

Tento článek zkoumá strategie, které umožnily řeholnicím a jejich kongregaci přizpůsobit se životu a službě v československém autoritářském režimu, se zaměřením na méně probádané období normalizace.

The Latin American Legislators Dataset

original article

open access

published version

Weiss, Michael

Kouba, Karel

2025

Springer Nature

Scientific Data

12

(1)

This article describes a dataset of legislators in Latin America. It is a large data collection effort containing data on all elected legislators in the 18 Latin American countries with competitive elections since 1978 or ...

Legislative Turnover in Latin America: Introducing a New Dataset and Analyzing Its Temporal Dynamics

original article

open access

published version

Kouba, Karel

Weiss, Michael

2025

Blackwell Publishing

Latin American Politics and Society

67

(3)

The article examines the patterns of turnover of Latin American legislators. It contributes (1) by introducing a large original dataset of turnover rates in 204 elections between 1985 and 2023 based on manually coded lists ...

The School Sisters of St. Francis During Czechoslovak Normalisation:
A Strategy between Maintaining Identity and Fighting for Survival