Journal articles

Democracy and autocracy

Dahlum, S., Hanson, T., Johnsen, Å., Kotsadam, A., & Wuttke, A. (2024). Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments. Forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science.

Dahlum, Sirianne, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Magnus Rasmussen and Tore Wig (2024). Behind the throne: Regime support coalitions around the world, 1789-2020, conditionally accepted in British Journal of Political Science.

Claassen, Christopher and Ackermann, Kathrin and Bertsou, Eri and Borba, Lucas and Carlin, Ryan E and Cavari, Amnon and Dahlum, Sirianne and Gherghina, Sergiu and Hawkins, Darren and Lelkes, Yphtach et al (2024). Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241259458

Dahlum, S., Knutsen, C. H., & Wig, T. (2019). Who revolts? Empirically revisiting the social origins of democracy. The Journal of Politics, 81(4), 1494-1499.

Lührmann, A., Mechkova, V., Dahlum, S., Maxwell, L., Olin, M., Petrarca, C. S., Sigman, R., Wilson, M. & Lindberg, S. I. (2018). State of the world 2017: Autocratization and exclusion? Democratization, 25(8), 1321-1340.

Dahlum, S. and C.H. Knutsen (2018). Do Democracies Provide Better Education? Revisiting the Democracy–Human Capital Link. World Development 94(1): 186-199.

Dahlum, S. and Knutsen, C.H. (2017). What Counts as Evidence? Panel Data and the Empirical Evaluation of Revised Modernization Theory,  British Journal of Political Science. 47(2): 473-478.

Dahlum, S. and Knutsen, C.H. (2017).  Democracy by demand? Reinvestigating the effect of self-expression values on political regime type,  British Journal of Political Science. 47(2): 437-461.

Mass mobilization

Dahlum, S (2023). Joining Forces: Social Coalitions and Democratic Revolutions. Forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research.

Dahlum S, Pinckney J, Wig T. Moral Logics of Support for Nonviolent Resistance: Evidence From a Cross-National Survey Experiment (2022). Comparative Political Studies. doi:10.1177/00104140221100198

Dahlum, S. and Wig, T. (2020). Chaos on Campus. Universities and mass political protest. Comparative Political Studies, 54(1), 3-32

Dahlum, S. (2019). Students in the streets: education and nonviolent protest. Comparative Political Studies, 52(2), 277-309.

Gender and politics

Mechkova, V., Dahlum, S., & Petrarcha, C (2023). Women's Political Representation, Good Governance and Human Development. Forthcoming in Governance.

Dahlum, S., Knutsen, C. H., & Mechkova, V. (2022). Women’s political empowerment and economic growth. World Development, 156, 105822.

Dahlum, S. and Wig, T. (2020). Peace above the glass ceiling: Historical female empowerment and civil conflict, 1800-2017. International Studies Quarterly, 64(4), 879–893

Books and monographs

Knutsen, C.H & Dahlum, S (2022). “Economic determinants of democracy”, ch. 5 in Why Democracies Develop and Decline, Cambridge University Press.

Dahlum, S., Knutsen, C.H., Rasmussen, Magnus, Wig, Tore (forthcoming). En innføring i statsvitenskap. Fagbokforlaget.

Dahlum, Sirianne (2019). Schooling for dissent? Education, autocratic regime instability and transitions to democracy