Factors affecting democratization in post civil war countries.

Thomas Schindler

This project empirically tests the factors affecting democratization following a civil It includes 92 conflicts and studies each of the ten years following a civil war. I study four explanatory variables: length, casualties, war type, and outcome. The dependent variables are democracy scores and whether the country increased in democracy from the previous year. I test this using OLS and logit linear regression.

Major: 
Social Data Analytics
Exhibition Category: 
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Exhibition Format: 
Poster Presentation
Campus: 
University Park
Faculty Sponsor: 
Marie Hojnacki
Poster Number: 
50364