Author Question: The claim that democracies are less likely to go to war than autocracies is a. not correct ... (Read 87 times)

Frost2351 · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

The claim that democracies are less likely to go to war than autocracies is

a. not correct statistically.
b. entirely correct statistically.
c. dependent on the period of study.
d. ambiguous.

Question 2

Rational choice theorists argue that democratic political institutions have two effects on their leaders that make them cautious about going to war with one another: democratic states are more likely to win wars and

a. leaders have a greater sensitivity to the political costs of losing a war.
b. citizens are unlikely to support their government's war efforts.
c. conflict rarely solves the problem at hand.
d. other democracies will intervene to prevent conflict.