DOES DEMOCRACY CAUSE PEACE?

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Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes

1994 • 2,177 citations

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2017 • 2,123 citations

Normative and Structural Causes of Democratic Peace, 1946–1986

1993 • 1,438 citations

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1995 • 1,361 citations

Political Community and the North Atlantic Area

1958 • 1,293 citations

Politics Among Nations

1950 • 1,142 citations

Liberalism and World Politics

1986 • 1,136 citations

Perpetual Peace: a Philosophical Sketch

1991 • 1,122 citations

Liberalism and World Politics

1986 • 1,034 citations

The Classical Liberals Were Right: Democracy, Interdependence, and Conflict, 1950-1985

1997 • 936 citations

Dangerous Dyads

1992 • 919 citations

Powerful Pacifists: Democratic States and War

1992 • 736 citations

How Liberalism Produces Democratic Peace

1994 • 725 citations

A study of war

1942 • 682 citations

Democratization and the Danger of War

1995 • 674 citations

Democracy and the Peaceful Settlement of International Conflict

1994 • 655 citations

Democratization and the Danger of War

1996 • 647 citations

The war puzzle

1993 • 646 citations

War and the Survival of Political Leaders: A Comparative Study of Regime Types and Political Accountability

1995 • 644 citations

Economic Interdependence: A Path to Peace or a Source of Interstate Conflict?

1996 • 612 citations

The War Puzzle

1993 • 577 citations

War and Reason

1992 • 533 citations

Political Community and the North Atlantic Area

1998 • 500 citations

War and Reason

1992 • 499 citations

Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1976

1984 • 478 citations

Regime Types and International Conflict, 1816-1976

1989 • 469 citations

Standing your ground: territorial disputes and international conflict

1996 • 460 citations

Libertarianism and International Violence

1983 • 423 citations

Double Take

1997 • 383 citations

Domestic Politics and War

1989 • 382 citations

The Liberal Peace: Interdependence, Democracy, and International Conflict, 1950-85

1996 • 374 citations

Democracy and the Management of International Conflict

1993 • 373 citations

Persistence and Change in Political Systems, 1800–1971

1974 • 371 citations

Democratization and War

1995 • 370 citations

Domestic Politics and War

1988 • 349 citations

In Search of Democratic Peace: Problems and Promise

1997 • 342 citations

Standing Your Ground

1996 • 338 citations

Grasping the Democratic Peace

1994 • 333 citations

The Wages of War, 1816-1965: A Statistical Handbook

1974 • 330 citations

Assessing the Dyadic Nature of the Democratic Peace, 1918–88

1996 • 329 citations

Peace and Democracy

1997 • 309 citations

Democracy and peace: putting the cart before the horse?

1996 • 281 citations

Unifying Political Methodology

1998 • 273 citations

The Insignificance of the Liberal Peace

1994 • 270 citations

A history of international relations theory

1992 • 265 citations

Alliance, contiguity, wealth, and political stability: Is the lack of conflict among democracies a statistical artifact?

1992 • 264 citations

The Transformation of the Western State: The Growth of Democracy, Autocracy, and State Power Since 1800

1990 • 255 citations

War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis

1992 • 251 citations

Election Cycles and War

1991 • 238 citations

Polities and Peace

1995 • 237 citations

Democracy and militarized interstate conflict, 1816–1965

1993 • 223 citations

The Wages of War, 1816-1965: A Statistical Handbook

1973 • 218 citations

The Subjectivity of the "Democratic" Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany

1995 • 209 citations

A Tale of Two Democratic Peace Critiques

1997 • 199 citations

Democracies, Disputes, and Third-Party Intermediaries

1994 • 192 citations

Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition, by James Lee Ray

1996 • 190 citations

Democracies Really Are More Pacific (in General)

1996 • 189 citations

Democracies are Less Warlike Than Other Regimes

1995 • 170 citations

Take two democracies and call me in the morning: A prescription for peace?

1992 • 168 citations

Paths to Peace: Is Democracy the Answer?

1998 • 161 citations

Democracy and Peace

1992 • 160 citations

Why Don't Democracies Fight Each Other?

1993 • 155 citations

Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence

1997 • 150 citations

Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace

1997 • 146 citations

Democracy and international conflict: an evaluation of the democratic peace proposition

1996 • 145 citations

Wars between democracies: Rare, or nonexistent?

1993 • 143 citations

Capabilities, Perception, and Escalation

1997 • 138 citations

Peace Between Participatory Polities: A Cross-Cultural Test of the “Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other” Hypothesis

1992 • 136 citations

The Democratic Peace

1995 • 134 citations

Power kills: democracy as a method of nonviolence

1997 • 123 citations

An Empirical Test of The Audience Cost Proposition

1996 • 123 citations

Democracies and War Participation:

1995 • 122 citations

Controversies in International Relations Theory

1995 • 117 citations

Geography, democracy, and peace

1995 • 114 citations

Pacific unions: a reappraisal of the theory that ‘democracies do not go to war with each other’

1994 • 110 citations

A security regime among democracies: cooperation among Iroquois nations

1994 • 108 citations

New Tests of the Democratic Peace: Controlling for Economic Interdependence, 1950-85

1997 • 107 citations

The Controversy over the Democratic Peace: Rearguard Action or Cracks in the Wall?

1997 • 103 citations

The Democratic Peace

2017 • 94 citations

Interstate metrics: Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and measuring the geographic proximity of states since the congress of Vienna

1991 • 91 citations

Democracy and international conflict: an evaluation of the democratic peace proposition

1996 • 78 citations

The Future as Arbiter of Theoretical Controversies: Predictions, Explanations and the End of the Cold War

1996 • 77 citations

Peace among Democratic and Oligarchic Republics

1994 • 72 citations

Economic development, social order, and world politics

1996 • 66 citations

Economic Development, Social Order, and World Politics

1995 • 52 citations

Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace

1997 • 51 citations

Urbanization, roads, and rural population change in the Ecuadorian Andes

1990 • 46 citations

A neo-Kantian perspective: democracy, interdependence and international organizations in building security communities

1998 • 45 citations

Correspondence: Democratization and the Danger of War

1996 • 43 citations

The Democratic Path to Peace

1997 • 41 citations

Regime Types, Markets, and War

1993 • 29 citations

The Political Psychology of `Peace through Democratization'

1995 • 21 citations

Costs and Demands

1997 • 20 citations

The Controversy over the Democratic Peace: Rearguard Action or Cracks in the Wall?

1997 • 17 citations

Demosthenes and democracies: Regime‐types and arbitration outcomes

1996 • 14 citations

A Critique of “A Critique of The War Trap”

1984 • 11 citations

R. J. Rummel's Understanding Conflict and War: An Overlooked Classic?

1998 • 6 citations