POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Information Overload, Democratic Peace Theory, Preemptive War
5 Mar 2014
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Political science 1g06 2012 lecture 10b democratic peace theory. Democratic peace theory (see the article by rosato, from whom this discussion is taken): According to proponents of this theory, a simple study of the empirical evidence reveals the following pattern: democracies do not go to war against other democracies. Democracies do go to war against non-democracies, but not against each other. Recall that correlation does not imply causation. At the same time the causal explanation must account for why democracies will go to war against non-democracies. Amongst modern scholars there are generally two types of causal explanation offered: Democracy creates certain norms that promote the peaceful. Democratic leaders are socialized into nonviolent conflict resolution . These leaders are likely to transfer this conflict resolution strategy to resolution of conflicts in their domestic disputes the international realm. Democratic institutions place certain constraints on democratically: constraints that do not restrain non-democratically elected elected leaders leaders.
