Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfolgt zwei Ziele: Armutsreduzierung und Demokratisierung. Auf der … weniger Demokratisierung – und umgekehrt. Dieser Trade-Off lässt sich auflösen, wenn es gelingt, bei diktatorischen Regimes … democratization. Using a rational choice approach to non-democratic regimes, this paper argues that there is a trade-off between these …

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 …

and generalizable causal mechanism impacting democratization - can induce elite support for democracy. We construct a … the possibility that economic elites may at times prefer democracy absent a popular threat from below. Motivated by a … puzzling set of democratic transitions, we relax this assumption and examine how elite uncertainty about dictatorship - a novel …

and generalizable causal mechanism impacting democratization – can induce elite support for democracy. We construct a … the possibility that economic elites may at times prefer democracy absent a popular threat from below. Motivated by a … puzzling set of democratic transitions, we relax this assumption and examine how elite uncertainty about dictatorship – a novel …