non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset … regime types). Thus, while full democratization might advance the cause of peace, limited democratization might advance the …

Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the natural effect of trade.? This paper first reviews this literature and …

backward induction procedure to pinpoint the latest moment at which a coalition can be found with both an incentive and the … this way will be agreed upon at the outset - or, if a suitable coalition is never found, that no agreement will be reached. …

- is spurious: that advanced capitalism accounts for both democracy and the democratic peace (Mousseau 2009). This is not a … causation from democracy to peace. It is impersonal economy, not democracy or unfettered markets, which appears to explain the …Recent research indicates that the democratic peace - the observation that democratic nations rarely fight each other …

empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …

women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …

two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …