Democratic Stock and Conflict Risk

• In Event: How Autocracies Survive, 2/2

Brief Overview

This paper examines the significance of democratic experience for explaining outcomes associated with instability—civil war, terrorism, and coups–using a new measure of stock, conceptualized as the accumulated experience of democratic rule.

Authors

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• Amanda B. Edgell, The University of Alabama

• Vanessa Boese, University of Gothenburg