This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth …. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the … effect of democratization is weaker than reported previously once one accounts for the incidence of conflict, while the …

Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfolgt zwei Ziele: Armutsreduzierung und Demokratisierung. Auf der … weniger Demokratisierung – und umgekehrt. Dieser Trade-Off lässt sich auflösen, wenn es gelingt, bei diktatorischen Regimes … democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these …

. Coercive peace policies such as peacekeeping forces or externally imposed regime changes have instead no persistent effects. …

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and highpersistence of income and democracy, we … find a statistically significant positive relationbetween income and democracy for a postwar period sample of up to 150 …

Blair et al. (2023) examine the effect of UN peacekeeping on democratization in conflict-affected countries. They use … fixed effects and instrumental variable estimators and find evidence that "UN missions with democracy promotion mandates are … strongly positively correlated with the quality of democracy in host countries but that the magnitude of the relationship is …

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …