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Democratic Institutions Dependent Variable
1,320 wordsStable Democracies I show that the problem of democratic stability is in large part one of incentives: do political officials have the appropriate incentives to honor the rights of citizens and the rules of democracy? To see the importance of incentives for our question, notice that stable democracy requires two conditions: first, electoral losers must have incentives to step down; and second, those out of power must be willing to eschew force as a means of taking control of the government. If e...
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