Regime Type, Preferences, and War in Renaissance Italy

The democratic peace has received substantial empirical support in the modern international system. The consistency of the results does not imply that reasonable critiques do not exist, that is, the effects of development, liberal economic structures, and preferences. These challenges, however, tend...

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Published in:The Journal of conflict resolution 2003-04, Vol.47 (2), p.204-225
Main Author: Sobek, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
Capitalism
City states
Conflict
Conflict resolution
Contiguity
Datasets
Democracy
Dyadic relations
Empirical research
Evidence
International relations
International system
Italy
Mathematical models
Peace
Peacetime
Political Power
Political regimes
Political Systems
Preferences
Renaissance
Renaissance period
Republicanism
Research Projects
Social Systems
Studies
War
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Summary:The democratic peace has received substantial empirical support in the modern international system. The consistency of the results does not imply that reasonable critiques do not exist, that is, the effects of development, liberal economic structures, and preferences. These challenges, however, tend to strongly correlate with democracy, making direct statistical tests inefficient and not necessarily convincing. This study attempts to evaluate these challenges and extend the temporal domain of the democratic peace through an empirical analysis of Renaissance Italy. The data set contains the seven major powers of Renaissance Italy between 1250 and 1494, with measures of war, power, regime type, preferences, and contiguity. The analyses show that joint republicanism, power preponderance, and preference similarity decrease the probability of war.
ISSN:0022-0027
1552-8766
DOI:10.1177/0022002702251029