democratization. This study first explores the ways in which foreign donors directly strengthen civil society, parties, the media, as … accountability in decentralization and in public goods provision. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and … decentralization, our results show that expenditure decentralization robustly reduces the number of terror events in a country, while … political decentralization has no impact. …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Taking account of the potential simultaneity between terror and … decentralization, our results show that expenditure decentralization robustly reduces the number of terror events in a country, while … political decentralization has no impact. …

(consensual crowding out). And finally, the more a government supports democratization, the lower is the individual's engagement …