TY - BOOK AU - Mansfield,Edward D. AU - Snyder,Jack L. TI - Electing to fight: why emerging democracies go to war SN - 0262134497 (hc : alk. paper) U1 - 321.8 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Democratization KW - War N1 - 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 ER -