BOOK LENGTH COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEWS

• Vol. 4: War, Power, Peace, 1979: entire.

• Power Kills. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1997: Preface, Chapters 1, 8, and 13; References; selected tables and figures.

• The Conflict Helix: Principles and Practices of Interpersonal, Social, and International Conflict and Cooperation. Rutgers, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991: Introduction and a web site flyleaf.

• Saving Lives, Enriching Life: Freedom as a Right, and a Moral Good, Published on this web site, 2001. Downloadable as a free pdf.

• Never Again: Ending War, Democide, & Famine Through Democratic Freedom, Nonfiction supplement to the above series of novels. Table of Contents. 2005. Downloadable as a free pdf.

• Freedom's Principles 2006: entire. Downloadable as a free pdf.

PHILOSOPHICAL ASIDES

• Chapter: determinism and free will [10]
• Chapter: alternative perspectives on freedom of the will [10]

WHAT IS POWER? [11]

• Chapter: the fundamental nature of power
• Chapter: social power
• Chapter: the family of power

POWER SHAPES SOCIETY AND POLITICS

• Chapter: power and society [11]
• Chapter: power, the state, and political system [11]
  • Chapter: evidence that power shapes society and politics [11]
  • Chapter: State-Power Proposition [13]
• Chapter: the nature of democratic Freedom and totalitarian Power [6]
  • Article: and human rights

THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE--POWER KILLS

• Democratic Peace Chart frontside (It provides definitions, propositions, exceptions, list of democracies, tables and plots).
  • Downloadable pdf is here.
• Democratic Peace Chart backside. (More tables and plots)
  • Downloadable pdf is here.
• Comprehensive (as of 2005) Q&A
• Comprehensive (as of 2005)"Democratic Peace Bibliography"
• Paper: What is the "democratic peace"?
• Chapter: Power kills [6]
• Articles: Democratic Peace Propositions on Violence Within and Between Nations:
  • democracies do not make war on each other
    • A Test Against Published Research Results.
    • Dean Babst, "Elective Governments--A Force For Peace" the first published quantitative test of the democratic peace.
    • "Summary chapter" by Spencer Weart from his book Never At War
    • Article: "Libertarianism and International Violence"
    • Table: wars between democracies and nondemocracies, 1816-1991 [1]
    • Appendix: the Q and A on no wars between democracies [6]
    • Joint Freedom Proposition [13]

  • the more democratic two nations, the less severe the violence between them
    • Table: the severity of bilateral violence 1900-1980 [6]
      • Figure: plot [6]

  • the more democratic a nation, the less severe its foreign violence
    • Table: the severity of foreign violence, 1900-1987 [6]
      • Figure: plot [6]
    • Article: "Libertarianism, Violence Within States, and the Polarity Principle"
    • Article: democracies ARE less warlike
    • Freedom Proposition [13]

  • the more democratic a nation, the less its domestic collective violence
    • Table: the severity of internal political violence, 1900-1987 [6]
      • Figure: plot [6]

  • the more democratic a nation, the less its domestic democide
    • see the evidence above

• Appendix: predicting the amount of a nation's violence from its degree of democratic freedom [15]
  • Contingency analysis: Frequency Table
  • Contingency analysis: Distribution of Nations
  • Bivariate regression: Table
  • Multiple regression: Table

• Chapter: why Power kills [6]

BACKGROUND

• Article: is the democratic peace a new idea?

The table in the upper right is from Table 1.1 of Death By Government.

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