A high number of peaceful handovers (first map) also indicates that government turnover is relatively high. France and the US have been democracies since about the same moment, but France has backslid to monarchy a couple times, and had a lot of unstable coalition governments.
A high number of peaceful handovers (first map) also indicates that government turnover is relatively high. France and the US have been democracies since about the same moment, but France has backslid to monarchy a couple times, and had a lot of unstable coalition governments.