failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the …

studies on the crisis of democracy …

This paper provides an original study into how democratization and globalization influence terrorism - examining the … employ a gravity model to investigate the relative importance of globalization and democratization on transnational terrorism … actually increases terrorism. Ceteris paribus, the impact of being a democracy or participating in the WTO for a source country …

This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … threat of revolution. Initially, a ruling elite may be able to use trade policy to maintain political stability. But a world … price shock can push the country into a situation where the elite face a commitment problem that only democratization can …

aid generally supports rather than hinders democracy building around the world; ii) aid modalities influence the … literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate …

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 …

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 …

wars. Six possible trajectories are mapped out: stable democracy, weak democracy, stable autocracy, fragmented rule …