Turkey? The PKK’s radicalization at a period of EU-induced democratization in Turkey counters the conventional argument that … fostering democracy would reduce the problems of ethnic conflict. Explanations based on resource mobilization, political … opportunity structures, and cognitive framing fail to provide a satisfactory answer. The article argues that democratization will …

This article revisits the empirical relationship between oil and democracy. Existing studies establish a negative cross …-country correlation between oil and democracy in a Pooled OLS framework. This insight has recently been challenged by claiming that it … democracy. This article argues that because of the high persistence of democracy and oil, the findings of no effect of oil on …

While there has been extensive interest in the role of democracy in reducing interstate violence, the role of democracy … democracy contributes to former belligerents reaching the highest levels of peace but that it is not helpful at the lower levels … especially if only one side is a democracy. The article tests arguments on a dataset that captures the transitions from one level …

on incentives for violence and civil war empirically have almost invariably relied upon measures of democracy to proxy … repression will give rise to an inverted U-shaped relationship between democracy and the risk of civil war. The authors detail a … number of problems with measures of democracy as proxies for political opportunity structures and develop alternative …

What is the scope of economics as a science, what is economics for? Real freedom or what we call substantive democracy … the most substantial contributors to what could be called the erosion of democracy. The first argument used in this case … economics considers democracy contradictory to the expression of its scientific rationality and; the third, that economics …