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 …

Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in … military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they …

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 …