Political Irrelevance, Democracy, and the Limits of Militarized Conflict

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284582
AutoresBear F Braumoeller (0000-0003-0389-6853, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA,), Austin Carson (0000-0002-2849-8408, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)
Ano2011
Volume55
Fascículo2
Páginas292-320
Data de publicação2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002710393918
OpenAlexW2140161056
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas27

Although the statistical literature on conflict studies has generated strong and consistent findings on the relationship of political irrelevance and dyadic democracy to conflict, scholars have paid scant attention to the interesting theoretical issue of how they matter. The authors argue that additive controls and dropping irrelevant dyads constitute misspecifications of their effects. There are theoretical reasons to believe that the impact of distance on conflict is not sufficiently severe to justify the practice of simply dropping irrelevant dyads. Moreover, they argue that political irrelevance and dyadic democracy, rather than subtracting some constant quantity, interact to impose an upper bound on the probability of conflict initiation. They find both of these arguments to be supported in a reanalysis of a prominent study of dispute initiation

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