Why do some countries emerge from civil war more democratic than when they entered into it, while others remain staunchly autocratic? Observers widely depict in

"Through a study of the mobilization of the Italian and British labor movements during World War I, this book explores whether war advances democracy. It explai

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patter

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic syste

This book investigates the origins of civil wars which emerge from failed attempts at democratization. The main aim of this volume is to develop a theoretical e