Political Institutions

Papers under this heading discuss the relationship between political institutions and civil war. The studies investigate whether democracies have less civil wars than autocracies and regimes that feature both democratic and non-democratic characteristics, whether there is any differences between different democratic political systems, and what is the role of democratic transitions in explaining civil war.

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