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ECON3106 Politics and Economics

Problem Set 6

1 Democratic Peace

In "Democratic Peace and Electoral Accountability" - Conconi, Sahuguet and Zanardi (2014) the authors show that democracies are less likely to go to war with other democracies

1.1 Why the authors do not find this relationship when studying democracies that have presidents that are a lame-duck?

In "Democratic Capital: The Nerus of Political and Economic Change" - Persson and Tabellini (2009) the authors find that long-term democracies are less likely to transition to an autocracy.

1.2 What is the explanation that the authors provide for this phenomenon?