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Democratization, State Formation, and Civil War in Finland and Ireland

A Reflection on the Democratic Peace Hypothesis

London School of Economics

In both Finland and Ireland, democracy was the product of long-term processes of development, and the question is why the presence of democratic norms and institutions did not prevent their civil wars. Arguably both systems were destabilized by the delay between the first democratic elections and the achievement of legislative independence, when crises over who should inherit the empires’ legislative power became interlinked with the absence of coercive institutions.

Key Words: democratization • democratic peace hypothesis • civil war

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 37, No. 8, 969-985 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0010414004267983


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