non-hostile country. The result is a non-monotonic relationship between democracy and peace. Using the Polity IV dataset … faster than other regime types. -- Democracy; peace …

This paper examines the link of political participation and employment status in a dualized labor market. Both insiders …

into an ongoing competition with civil society and it is these, not the despotic ones, that develop the greatest capacity …. We develop a dynamic contest model of the potential competition between state (controlled by a ruler or a group of elites …

This note shows that participation by many players in deterministic contests arises when different players have … different cost advantages in different regions of the competition, and not from incomplete information per se …