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...
View ArticleOptimal 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...
View ArticleReplication, 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)...
View ArticleShared 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...
View ArticleAssessing 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...
View ArticleCampaign 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...
View ArticleEffectiveness 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....
View ArticleMali’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...
View ArticlePakistan 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
View ArticleThe 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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