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33 J. Conflict Resol. 3 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/jcfltr33 and id is 1 raw text is: Regime Types and International Conflict, 1816-1976 ZEEV MAOZ NASRIN ABDOLALI New York University This study replicates and extends previous inquiries on the relations between regime type and conflict involvement of states. It examines the robustness of previous findings with respect to various regime attributes, various conflict involvement measures, and units of analysis. Using two comprehensive datasets on polity characteristics and militarized interstate disputes, the empirical analyses reveal: (1) There are no relations between regime type and conflict involvement measures when the unit of analysis is the individual polity (i.e., a state characterized by a certain regime type over a given time span); this finding is robust in that it holds over most regime characteristics and conflict involvement measures. (2) There is a significant relationship between the regime characteristics of a dyad and the probability of conflict involvement of that dyad: Democracies rarely clash with one another, and never fight one another in war. (3) Both the proportion of democratic dyads and the proportion of autocratic dyads in the international system significantly affect the number of disputes begun and underway. But the proportion of democratic dyads in the system has a negative effect on the number of wars begun and on the proportion of disputes that escalate to war. This article examines the extent to which political and economic structures within states are related to patterns of international conflict involvement. We reassess the well-known hypothesis that political and economic freedom (often, but not exclusively, associated with de- mocracy) is inversely related to the magnitude of international conflict AUTHORS' NOTE: An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 3-6, 1987. Data on regime types were made available by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research. The data were collected by Ted Robert and Erika Gurr (Gurr, 1974, 1978). Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Consortium bears any responsibility for the analyses and interpretations presented here. We wish to thank Ric Stoll for comments and J. David Singer for his continued encouragement of this project. JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, Vol. 33 No, 1, March 1989 3-35 o 1989 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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