Figures and Tables Preface1. Introduction [Summary and Conclusion]
Appendix 1.1. Questions and Answers on the Fact that Democracies Do Not Make War on Each Other
Introduction to Part I
2. No War between Democracies
3. Democracy Limits Bilateral Violence
4. Democracies are Least Warlike
5. Democracies are Most Internally Peaceful
6. Democracies Don't Murder Their Citizens
7. A New Fact?
8. What is to be Explained? [On The Nature of Democracy]
9. First Level Explanation: The People's Will
10. Second Level Explanation: Cross-Pressures, Exchange Culture, and In-Group Perception
11. Third Level Explanation I: Social Field and Freedom
12. Third Level Explanation II: Antifield and Power
13. Power Kills [Why Does Power Kill?]References
Names index
Subject Index
I have changed my estimate for colonial democide from 870,000 to an additional 50,000,000. Details here.
Thus, the new world total: old total 1900-1999 = 174,000,000. New World total = 174,000,000 + 38,000,000 (new for China) + 50,000 (new for Colonies) = 262,000,000.
Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century.
Figure 3.1. The Less Democratic Two Regimes, The More Severe Their Wars 1900-1980Figure 4.1. The Less a Regime is Democratic, The More Severe Its Foreign Violence 1900-1980
Figure 4.2. The Less Democratic a Regime, The More Severe Its Foreign Violence; Selected Sample 1900-1987
Figure 4.3. Regardless of Wealth, The Less Democratic a Regime, The More Intense Its Foreign Violence; Selected Sample
Figure 4.4. Regardless of Capability, The Less Democratic a Regime, The More Intense Its Foreign Violence; Selected Sample 1900-1987
Figure 5.1. The Less Democratic a Regime, The More Severe Its Internal Political Violence Selected Sample 1900-1987
Figure 6.1. The Distribution of Megamurderers and Their Annual Rates
Figure 6.2. The Less Democratic and More Totalitarian a Regime, the More Its Tends to Murder Its Own Citizens
Figure 8.1. The Political Triangle: Societies and Associated Political Regimes
Table 3.1. The More Democratic Two Regimes, The Less Intensely They Fight Each Other 1900-1980Table 3.2. It is No Accident That the More Democratic Two Regimes the Less Deadly Their Wars 1900-1988
Table 4.1. The More Democratic A Regime, The Less Intense Its Foreign Violence 1900-1980
Table 4.2. The Less Democratic A Regime, The More Intense Its Foreign Violence; Selected Sample 1900-1987
Table 4.3. Regardless of Wealth, The Less Democratic A Regime, The More Intense Its Foreign Violence, Selected Sample 1900-1987
Table 4.4. Regardless of Capability, The Less Democratic A Regime, The More Intense Its Foreign Violence; Selected Sample 1900-1987
Table 5.1. Empirical Studies Overwhelmingly Find That Democracies Have the Least Internal Violence
Table 5.2. The Less Democratic A Regime, The More Severe Its Internal Political Violence; Selected Sample 1900-1987
Table 6.1. Governments Have Murdered Near 170,000,000 People in Our Century
This book presents the sum of that research. And, I believe, I finally can offer what appears a most realistic and practical solution to war, democide, and other collective violence.
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