Popular vs. Elite Democratic Structures and International Peace

• Main Authors: JOSHI, Devin K., Maloy, J. S., Peterson, Timothy M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: democratic institutions; democratic peace; militarized conflict; Defense and Security Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1939
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Structural theories of international peace among democratic regimes have relied on two distinct explanatory logics: democratic institutions may cause a state’s foreign policy to tend toward peace by exposing policymaking elites to pressure from ordinary citizens (the popular logic) or to pressure fr...