Realist and Cultural Critiques of the Democratic Peace: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment
Realist and Cultural Critiques of the Democratic Peace: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment
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对民主和平的现实主义和文化批判：理论和实证的重新评估
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10.1080/03050629808434920
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1998
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Z. Maoz
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Z. Maoz
在过去四年中，针对民主和平主张提出了一些批评意见。这些批评既挑战了民主国家不相互争斗的基本论点，也挑战了对这一现象的解释。本研究根据两种类型的批评重新评估民主和平主张：重新主义批评和文化批评。现实主义批评者认为，民主和平主张要么是统计上的产物，要么民主国家之间缺乏冲突可以用权力平衡或共同利益等现实主义因素来解释。文化批评挑战民主概念的“客观性”，并指责民主和平概念具有文化偏见。对这些批评的审查导致了对民主和平主张的一些经验性重复和新颖的统计检验。总体结论是，所有这些批评都不会损害民主和平的基本事实。结论敦促我们继续关注S。
Over the last four years, a number of criticisms have been addressed at the democratic peace proposition. These criticisms challenged both the basic argument that democracies do not fight each other as well as the explanation for this phenomenon. The present study re‐evaluates the democratic peace proposition in light of two types of criticisms: relaist and cultural. Realist criticisms argue that the democratic peace proposition is either a statistical artifact or that the lack of conflict between democracies can be explained by realist factors such as power balances or common interests. Cultural criticisms challenge the “objectivity” of conceptions of democracy, and accuse democratic peace notions as being culturally biased. The examination of these criticisms leads to a number of empirical replications and novel statistical tests of the democratic peace proposition. The overall conclusion is that none of these criticisms damages the basic fact of the democratic peace. The conclusion urges moving on to s...