Electing to fight : why emerging democracies go to war /

Mansfield, Edward D., 1962-

Electing to fight : why emerging democracies go to war / by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005. - x, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - BCSIA studies in international security .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The perilous path to the democratic peace -- Reconciling the democratic peace with accounts of democratization and war -- Explaining turbulent transitions -- Data and measures for testing the argument -- Democratization and war: statistical findings -- Democratizing dyads and the outbreak of war: statistical findings -- Democratizing initiators of war: tracing causal process -- Tracing trajectories of democratization and war in the 1990s -- Conclusion: Sequencing the transition for peace -- Appendix: Democratizing countries that experienced the outbreak of external war, 1816-1992.

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Democratization.
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