Arbeitspapier
The Democratic Peace Unraveled: Its the Economy
Recent research indicates that the democratic peace - the observation that democratic nations rarely fight each other - is spurious: that advanced capitalism accounts for both democracy and the democratic peace (Mousseau 2009). This is not a trivial prospect: if economic conditions explain the democratic peace, then a great deal of research on governing institutions and foreign policy is probably obsolete. This study addresses all the recent defenses of the democratic peace and reports new results using a new measure that directly gauges the causal mechanism of contract flows dependent on third-party enforcement. Analyses of most nations from 1961 to 2001 show contract-intensive "impersonal" economy to be the second most powerful variable in international conflict - following only contiguity - and, once considered, there is no evidence of causation from democracy to peace. It is impersonal economy, not democracy or unfettered markets, which appears to explain the democratic peace.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 1207
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Politischer Konflikt
Außenwirtschaftspolitik
Demokratie
Systemvergleich
Welt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mousseau, Michael
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
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Istanbul
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Mousseau, Michael
- Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF)
Entstanden
- 2012