Competing International Influences on Democratization

• In Event: International Influences on Political Regimes

Brief Overview

We employ spatial econometrics with panel data to model contagion through neighbor, alliance, and colonial networks since 1900. It finds that there are small but significant country-to-country effects that build slowly and then diminish.

Authors

• Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame

• Ben Denison, University of Notre Dame

• Paul A Friesen, University of Notre Dame

• Lucia Tiscornia, CIDE