conflicts, should be encouraged and aided in quickly setting up democratic institutions.Following the fall of the Soviet Union …, building democracy in war-torn and corrupt states has offered hope for addressing key problems such as corruption and … ineffectiveness.For practical purposes, democracy assistance has generally taken a two-part approach: (1) holding free and fair …

to democracy and vice versa (consistent with the recent theoretical work by Acemoglu and Robinson) but, unlike older …

institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ... [et al.] -- The compulsion of patronage …-political instability and the problem of development / Paul J. Zak -- Political institutions, economic growth, and democratic evolution: the … Pacific Asian scenario / Yi Feng ... [et al.] -- Democracy and the rule of law / Robert Barro -- Improving the effectiveness …