No study to date has addressed the potential of deliberative democracy in post-conflict societies. Merging basic … democracy is not only possible in post-conflict societies, nor is it merely desirable in the normative sense. Post …-conflict societies are to transform the deadlocks of civil war. However, we cannot speak of deliberative democracy in post …

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 …