Democratic Peace

Which of the following best describes what Tomz and Weeks find?

  • democracies are less supportive of war against democracies than against autocracies

According to Tomz and Weeks, which of the following best describes why democracies are less supportuve of military conflict against other democracies?

  • war against democracy would be more immoral than war against an autocracy

Which of the following best expresses the benefit of using an experiment?

  • to address confounding

Rosato argues that democracies

  • are not more peaceful than non democracies

Which of the following is a reason Rosato gives in support for his argument?

  • ths us intervened against several nascent democracies during the cold war

according to rosato’s table 4, how many democratic leaders were removed from office after losing a war?

  • 3

according to rosato, approx how often have democracies gone to war, since 1815, for reasons not closely tied to the ntl interest?

  • 50%

which of the following bets describes rosatos explanation for the democratic peace?

  • imperial peace

Rosato; Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory

  • causal logics of the democratic peace

    • normative logic

      • important effect of democracy is to socialize political elites to act on basis of democratic norms whenever possible

      • means democracies trust and respect one another when conflict of interest arises between them bc they adhere to the same norms

      • they will be isolated from nromatize world if they got ot force

      • non democracies are not trusted or respected which is why democracies are prepared to go to war with them

    • institutional logic

      • democratic institutions and processes make leaders accountable to a wide range of social groups that may oppose war

      • democracies provide information that avoid wars, so then info problem is solved

  • Flaws in Normative Logic/ Why Rosato hates it

    • norm externalization

      • democracies do not adopt their internal norms of conflict resolution to the intl stage

      • norms argument says democracies should only go ot war when their safety and security are endangered by expansionist policies or when human rights violations are happening

      • ROSATO ARGUMENT: the imperial wars proves that this is not true, and they also instigated everything

    • trust and respect

      • democracies do not have powerful inclination to treat each other with trust and respect when interests clash

      • cold war interventions: american interventions to destablize democracies in south america

      • trust and respect only comes if democracies consider the other to be democratic and that consensus isnt always consistent

  • Flaws in institutional logic

    • no evidence that they are held more accountable than their autocratic counterparts

    • they also always commit suprise attacks, not slow to mobilize

    • open political competition provides no guarantee that state will be able to reveals level of resolve

    • public support

      • most ppl in democracies will not be personally affected by death in war and joining military is a profession

      • nationalism

      • group constraints are also fake

Tomz and Weeks; Public Opinion and Democratic Peace

  • why public opinion may matter

    • leaders who dissapoint can be removed from office

    • democratic leaders face institutional constraints on powers ot use force and public opinion affects how tight those constrainst are

    • leaders understand that by remaining popular they can accomplish more durin time in office

  • Shared democracy and public support for war: causal mechanisms

    • inputs into citizens calculations abt the merits of going to war

      • threat perception (if individuals feel threaten, theu support attack)

      • cost of fighting + likelihood of success

      • morality

evidence about main effect of democracy

Which of the following best describes what Tomz and Weeks find?

  • democracies are less supportive of war against democracies than against autocracies

According to Tomz and Weeks, which of the following best describes why democracies are less supportuve of military conflict against other democracies?

  • war against democracy would be more immoral than war against an autocracy