The Democratic
Peace

Governments not only murder people, but what everybody knows is that governments kill people in domestic and foreign wars. And here also power--lack of freedom-- is the cause. The material included here are specifically on this democratic peace. That theoretically and empirically on conflict, violence, and war generally is included on the conflict theme page

CONTENTS
PHILOSOPHICAL ASIDES
Chapter: determinism and free will [10]
Chapter: alternative perspectives on freedom of the will [10]

WHAT IS POWER? [11]
Chapter: the fundamental nature of power
Chapter: social power
Chapter: the family of power

POWER SHAPES SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Chapter: power and society [11]
Chapter: power, the state, and political system [11]
Chapter: evidence that power shapes society and politics [11]
Chapter: State-Power Proposition [13]

Chapter: the nature of democratic Freedom and totalitarian Power [6]
Article: and human rights

THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE--POWER KILLS
Paper: What is the "democratic peace"?
Chapter: Power kills [6]
Article: Libertarian Propositions on Violence Within and Between Nations: A Test Against Published Research Results

democracies do not make war on each other
"Summary chapter" by Spencer Weart from his book Never At War
Article: "Libertarianism and International Violence"
Table: wars between democracies and nondemocracies, 1816-1991 [1]
Appendix: the Q and A on no wars between democracies [6]
Joint Freedom Proposition [13]

the more democratic two nations, the less severe the violence between them
Table: the severity of bilateral violence 1900-1980 [6]
Figure: plot [6]

the more democratic a nation, the less severe its foreign violence
Table: the severity of foreign violence, 1900-1987 [6]
Figure: plot [6]

Article: "Libertarianism, Violence Within States, and the Polarity Principle"
Article: democracies ARE less warlike
Freedom Proposition [13]

the more democratic a nation, the less its domestic collective violence
Table: the severity of internal political violence, 1900-1987 [6]
Figure: plot [6]

the more democratic a nation, the less its domestic democide
see the evidence above

Appendix: predicting the amount of a nation's violence from its degree of democratic freedom [15]
Contingency analysis: Frequency Table
Contingency analysis: Distribution of Nations
Bivariate regression: Table
Multiple regression: Table

Chapter: why Power kills [6]

BACKGROUND
Article: is the democratic peace a new idea?

The table in the upper right is from Table 1.1 of Death By Government.

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