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 …

Existing research suggests that democratization can run counter to building peace in post-conflict contexts. This … democracy and peace: prioritization and gradualism. The prioritization approach advises sequencing, which means postponing … support for democratization and concentrating first on peace in terms of the absence of violent conflict. The gradualist …

through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …

An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings … include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and that propensity for … new, fine-grained data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. We discuss how the new data can be used to …

studies on the crisis of democracy …

While many recommend electoral democracy as a way to avoid or resolve civil conflict, the empirical record of electoral … democracy as an alternative to civil conflict is decidedly mixed. We apply recent work from new organizational economics on the …

The concept of democracy has long fuelled controversy among international legal scholars, especially concerning its … definition. This article is an attempt to single out three constitutive elements of democracy that have been subject to extensive …