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- Title
The Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Settings: The Empirical Record.
- Authors
Haggard, Stephan; Tiede, Lydia
- Abstract
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent countries reconstitute the rule of law following civil conflict. Drawing on an original data set of 47 cases in which conflict ended between 1970 and 1999, we find that the cessation of conflict has at best a modest effect on the rule of law. On average, countries revert to the pre-conflict rule-of-law status quo ante. In simple models, rule of law prior to the onset of conflict is the best indicator of post-conflict performance. Analysis of individual cases using structural break analysis shows that the cessation of conflict is not typically associated with an inflection in the rule of law; improvements are modest, take a long time, and fall far short of plausible thresholds for robust rule of law.
- Subjects
RULE of law; TERMINATION of war; CIVIL war; LAW; POLITICAL corruption; GROSS domestic product; INTERVENTION (International law); UNITED Nations; JUDICIAL process; CIVIL rights; PROPERTY rights; POLITICAL rights
- Publication
International Studies Quarterly, 2014, Vol 58, Issue 2, p405
- ISSN
0020-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/isqu.12103