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Democratic Trading Partners: The Liberal Connection, 1962-1989

Many liberals believe that shared democracy can be a foundation for peace not only directly, but indirectly through increased trade between countries as well. We test the hypothesis that democratic...

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Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency

A growing body of research shows that democracies have more liberal trade policies than do autocracies. I argue, in contrast, that democracy has contradictory effects on different types of trade...

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Replication, Realism, and Robustness: Analyzing Political Regimes and...

Our earlier article established that pairs of democracies trade more freely than country-pairs composed of a democracy and an autocracy (Mansfield, Milner, and Rosendorff 2000). Xinyuan Dai (2002)...

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Shared Goals: Measuring Overall Development Progress in Pakistan

In this essay, Nancy Birdsall and Wren Elhai suggest five possible indicators that illustrate the type of measurable targets that could help the United State and Pakistan meet shared goals for...

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Assessing Progress Toward Democracy in Francophone Africa

Feature Description:  This is video from a recent USIP event with the current Presidents of Benin, Guinea, Niger, and Cote d’Ivoire. This video captures the discussion from a recent USIP event with...

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Campaign Financing: An Achilles Heel for Post-Conflict Countries

Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others that have been tried. But there are two counter arguments to this view of democracy. Tags: Campaign...

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Effectiveness of Democracy-Support in “Fragile States”: A Review

This paper from the German Development Institute assesses the growing literature on both fragility and the effectiveness of democracy support, with a special focus on the quantitative literature....

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Mali’s Precarious Democracy and the Causes of Conflict

Feature Description:  This report from USIP seeks to explain the fragile nature of Malian democracy and the origins of the current crisis. This report from USIP seeks to explain the fragile nature of...

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Pakistan Elections 2013: A Historic Achievement, but the Hard Work Is to Come

*Written by Sadaf Lakhani, Advisor with invest2innovate and Featured INEC BloggeTags: Democracy, Economic Growth, Election, Pakistanread more

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The Egyptian Military in Politics and the Economy: Recent History and Current...

This CMI Insight explores recent historical episodes that inform the extensive political leverage that the military enjoys in Egyptian politics. Tags: 2013, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Democracy,...

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