State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace

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State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace is written by Christian Davenport and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521864909 (ISBN 10) and 9780521864909 (ISBN 13).

Does democracy reduce state repression as human rights activism, funding, and policy suggest? What are the limitations of this argument? Investigating 137 countries from 1976 to 1996, State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace seeks to shed light on these questions. Specifically, it finds that electoral participation and competition generally reduces personal integrity violations like torture and mass killing; other aspects of democracy do not wield consistent influences. This negative influence can be overwhelmed by conflict, however, and thus there are important qualifications for the peace proposition.