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 …

Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) indicates that external democracy support can help … mitigate the destabilising effects of post-conflict demo¬cratisation. Since the 1990s, democracy support has been integral to … that have embarked on a process of democratisation after civil war: Can democracy support help to mitigate destabilising …

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 …