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 …

democratization and therefore prefer political institutions with strong veto players. Parallel civilian interests conversely suffer … democratizations are partially planned while most democratization events from civilian autocracy are either unforeseen or poorly … planned. Exploring the characteristics of 111 democratization episodes between 1950 and 2015, I find a number of features …

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect … of democracy on institutional quality is increasing in people's human capital. Using a new panel data set, covering 140 …