Existing research suggests that democratization can run counter to building peace in post-conflict contexts. This … democracy and peace: prioritization and gradualism. The prioritization approach advises sequencing, which means postponing … support for democratization and concentrating first on peace in terms of the absence of violent conflict. The gradualist …

Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in … military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they …

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 …

An influential body of scholarship has associated both democracy and democratization with civil war. Important findings … include the so-called inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy-levels and civil war onset and that propensity for … new, fine-grained data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. We discuss how the new data can be used to …

studies on the crisis of democracy …

While many recommend electoral democracy as a way to avoid or resolve civil conflict, the empirical record of electoral … democracy as an alternative to civil conflict is decidedly mixed. We apply recent work from new organizational economics on the …

The concept of democracy has long fuelled controversy among international legal scholars, especially concerning its … definition. This article is an attempt to single out three constitutive elements of democracy that have been subject to extensive …