Is corruption the necessary path to democratic consolidation? Exploring the causal mechanism of democratic consolidation.

• In Event: JSS 15
  In JSS Session: State capacity, conflict, and democracy

Brief Overview

Using mixed methods, the paper investigates the relationship between governance and democratic consolidation through a comparative case research and time-series analysis of 43 countries from 1996-2016.

Author

• Manli Zhang, University of Colorado, Denver