Democracies and War
In: International studies review, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 301-303
ISSN: 1468-2486
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In: International studies review, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 301-303
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: Democracies and International Law, Cambridge University Press 2021
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In: Electoral Studies, Band 41, S. 50-59
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 41, S. 50-59
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences
ISSN: 1467-6435
AbstractThis paper analyzes how ethnic diversity affects the provision of public goods in democratic and non‐democratic societies when political parties compete for voter support by offering a mix of private and public goods. Our model implies that increasing diversity that leads to more heterogeneous preferences for public goods decreases the provision of public goods in democracies, where political power is distributed equally among citizens, while there is a weaker or no effect in non‐democracies, where political power is distributed unequally among citizens. When measuring diversity by ethnic fractionalization and public good provision by either levels of government expenses, expenditures on health, or life expectancy, we indeed observe a negative association between diversity and the provision of public goods in democracies but no or only a weak association in non‐democracies.
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In: Democratic theory: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 3, Heft 1
ISSN: 2332-8908
In: European political science: EPS ; serving the political science community ; a journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 476-488
ISSN: 1680-4333
In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 63, Heft 3, S. 644-671
ISSN: 1552-8766
Scholars argue that institutions in democracies constrain leaders and prevent international conflict. However, many democracies specify rules of governance in times of emergency that divert substantial power to the head of state. The manipulation of these "emergency powers" provides a rational motivation for conflict. Using a novel data set of emergency provisions within democracies, I test the relationship between emergency power strength and conflict propensity using several steps to achieve causal inference, including an instrumental variable analysis that exploits the specificity of the state's constitution as a plausibly exogenous determinant of emergency power strength. I find that emergency power strength is a strong predictor of conflict onset in democracies in each test and that states with strong emergency powers are substantially more likely to enact a state of emergency due to an international conflict. I conclude with a discussion of my findings and avenues of future research using these data.
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 63, Heft 3, S. 644-671
ISSN: 1552-8766
Scholars argue that institutions in democracies constrain leaders and prevent international conflict. However, many democracies specify rules of governance in times of emergency that divert substantial power to the head of state. The manipulation of these "emergency powers" provides a rational motivation for conflict. Using a novel data set of emergency provisions within democracies, I test the relationship between emergency power strength and conflict propensity using several steps to achieve causal inference, including an instrumental variable analysis that exploits the specificity of the state's constitution as a plausibly exogenous determinant of emergency power strength. I find that emergency power strength is a strong predictor of conflict onset in democracies in each test and that states with strong emergency powers are substantially more likely to enact a state of emergency due to an international conflict. I conclude with a discussion of my findings and avenues of future research using these data.
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 42, Heft 5, S. 797-819
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: African studies, Band 79, Heft 4, S. 444-462
ISSN: 1469-2872
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 76, Heft 3, S. E21
ISSN: 1468-2508
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Working paper
In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht: ZaöRV = Heidelberg journal of international law : HJIL, Band 83, Heft 2, S. 349-354