Brückner, Markus; Ciccone, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
on the likelihood of civil war? Our approach to answering these questions exploits that international commodity prices … war more likely in non-democracies. This effect is significantly weaker in democracies. So much so, that we do not find a … link between growth and civil war in countries with democratic institutions. Our results therefore point to an interaction …