Exam 12: Applying Perspectives and Levels of Analysis: the Case of the Democratic Peace

A pair of interacting states is commonly called a ______ in statistical studies.

Arguments that say that democracies are better at either balance-of-power politics or diplomacy sometimes omit an explanation of why democracies are better at those activities.

One way to increase a sample size is to define democracy and war more loosely.

Which perspective would most likely argue that peace is not caused by democracy but by the presence of hegemony?

Democracies still fight frequently against nondemocracies, but they are less inclined to do so than nondemocracies are to fight among themselves.

The argument that democracies do not go to war with one another because they share common domestic norms and institutions is an argument from the systemic process level of analysis because it tells us how they interact with one another.

The number of cases available in studies that are used in analyses to test relationships is often referred to as the ______.

Which perspective would most likely argue that democracies do not go to war with one another because leaders have to appeal to larger coalitions to survive politically and, therefore, choose wars only with nondemocratic countries in which democracies enjoy an advantage in mobilizing military resources?

According to the liberal perspective, democracies do not go to war with one another because they belong to the same international institutions, whose laws and practices they follow.

The argument that democracies are more peaceful than all other states is an example of an argument from which level of analysis?

As compared with nondemocracies, democracies tend to trade more with one another and participate more fully and aggressively in international organizations.

In 2002, Levy argued that ______ causes trump other mainstream causes in accounting for the absence of war.

The realist perspective argues that democracies do not go to war with one another because they successfully use ______ politics to avoid war.

According to the liberal perspective, more trade creates ______ gains, which democracies do not want to forfeit by going to war with one another.

The argument that democracies do not go to war with one another because they belong to the same international institutions, whose laws and practices they follow, is an example of an argument from the ______ level of analysis, if the argument depends on the rules of the institutions or the specialized roles that states play within these institutions.

The democratic peace is the theory that for the most part, democratic states ______, making the spread of democracy desirable.

The ______ perspective would most likely argue that democracies are all more peaceful than other states.

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following methodological approaches would most likely argue that the labeling or definition of variables in a study of democratic peace might not be divorced from the biases of the scholar doing the study?

The argument that democracies do not go to war with one another because they share common domestic norms and institutions requires at least two states that are both democratic to hold true.

An ______ outcome is one that is caused by multiple independent variables, the separate and interactive effects of which are not clear.