Governments not only murder people, but what everybody knows is that governments kill people in domestic and foreign wars. And here also power--lack of freedom-- is the cause. The material included here are specifically on this democratic peace. That theoretically and empirically on conflict, violence, and war generally is included on the conflict theme page

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?