Browsing by Author "Altman, David"
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An Interactive Model of the Democratic Peace: Revisiting the Theory with Elastic Measures
Altman, David; Rojas-de-Galarreta, Federico; Urdinez, Francisco (2018)Democracies do not take up arms against each other. This axiom has attained the status of a mantra in the field of international relations. As previous research has shown, however, the truth of this statement is highly ... -
Explaining the Erosion of Democracy: Can Economic Growth Hinder Democracy?
Pérez-Liñán, Aníbal; Altman, David (2017)Economic growth has become one of the leitmotivs academicians and pundits ask once and again to assess democratic endurance over time. While large portion of the literature posits that economic growth is positive for ... -
Measuring the Potential of Direct Democracy Around the World (1900-2014)
Altman, David (2015)To what extent is direct democracy achieved in current polities? To answer this question, I develop an index, Direct Democracy Practice Potential (DDPP), which is applied to 200 polities worldwide. This index results from ... -
Voting Rights of Denizens and Expats: Adjusting Democracy Indices to the Age of Mass Migration
Altman, David (2020-09)Contemporary migration flows affect virtually all aspects of the social fabric, democracy included. Focusing their attention on the competitiveness aspects of the regime, comparative measurements of democracy have ...