Do democratic regimes depend on public support to avoid backsliding? Does support, in turn, respond thermostatically changes democracy? Two prominent recent studies (Claassen 2020a; 2020b) reinvigorated the classic hypothesis positive relationship between for democracy and regime survival—and challenged its reciprocal counterpart—by using a latent variable approach measure mass from cross-natio...

Abstract The Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM) has been enduring guide on for metrologists since its first publication 1993. According GUM, a should always be accompanied by reasoned and defensible uncertainty, primary such is standard uncertainty. In this article, we distinguish between use an as information recipient result when propagating about inputs model order d...