Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992.(Statistical Data Included)

American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by ELLINGSEN, TANJA; GATES, SCOTT; GLEDITSCH, NILS PETTER; HEGRE, HARVARD

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The "third wave of democratization" (Huntington 1991; Vanhanen 2000) has raised hopes for a more peaceful world. The thesis of the democratic peace suggests that the spread of democracy will promote a decline in interstate warfare (Doyle 1986; Russett 1993), at least once the unsettling effects of the transition period are overcome (Ward and Gleditsch 1998). But does democratization also lead to civil peace?

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Considerable research has examined how regime type or the level of democracy relates to domestic conflict. Much of it focuses on the result that semidemocracies ...

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Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992.(Statistical Data Included)

American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by ELLINGSEN, TANJA; GATES, SCOTT; GLEDITSCH, NILS PETTER; HEGRE, HARVARD

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