Wartime routinely suspends democratic rule even in democratic countries

Evidence

One extreme example is war time, when, often, democratic rule is limited and even democratic countries adopt a more hierarchical structure of power. … In the terminology of our model, one can think of “winning a war” as a policy with a very high γ requiring a very high degree of insulation of leaders. — Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina, and Francesco Trebbi, Endogenous Political Institutions, 190

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: a history of emergency powers as the normal operating mode of democracies rather than an aberration.