POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Entrust, Spurious Relationship, Authoritarianism
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Immanuel kant and woodrow wilson, also represented by doyle (1986) Bueno de mesquita and lalman, rummel, small and singer. 1. international challenges require political leaders to mobilize domestic support to their policies. Most democracies in the post-world war ii era have been in some sort of alliance with one another, direct or indirect, preventing war. Hypothesis one: more democratic both members of a state are, the less likely it is that militarized disputes break out, less likely that it will escalate operates independently of other dyadic attributes (alliances, economic growth, etc. ) Hypothesis two (normative): the more deeply rooted in democratic norms, the less likely disputes will break out. Hypothesis three (structural): higher the political constraints on states, the lower the likelihood of disputes. Spatial-temporal domain contiguity and major power involvements two important factors for the likelihood for war. Correlates of war, 1816-1976, threats to use of military forces, actual use for force.