Rich Kid Poor Kid: Explaining Failing and Successful Episodes of Democratization

• In Event: The Economics of Authoritarianism and Democratic Transitions

Brief Overview

We model the probabilities of democratizing versus transitioning to democracy and show that economic development and elections make democratization less likely but make a transition to democracy more likely, conditional on democratization.

Authors

• Matthew Charles Wilson, University of South Carolina

• Amanda B. Edgell, The University of Alabama