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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Political Science

Background:

  • Analyzing complex causal pathways in social science is challenging.
  • Understanding the sequential nature of variable emergence is crucial for outcome prediction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a new method for analyzing long sequences of requisites for outcome variables.
  • To apply evolutionary biology principles to social science data analysis.

Main Methods:

  • A sorting algorithm based on repeated pairwise comparisons of variable states.
  • Identification of states that precede all other variable states.
  • Application to the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset.

Main Results:

  • The method can identify and compare long, complex sequences across numerous variables.
  • It allows for disentangling sequential requisites for both successful and failing outcomes.
  • Potential to reveal differing requisites across different time periods.

Conclusions:

  • The method is instrumental for policy-making, identifying critical components of democracy at different stages.
  • It informs targeted democracy promotion strategies by highlighting early and late-stage components.