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Are democracies more likely to be peaceful than authoritarian states?
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Are democracies more likely to be peaceful than authoritarian states? To answer this question we first need to define and contrast the two different types of state. An authoritarian state is one that enforces a policy of strict obedience, compliance and may use tyrannical and domineering measures to obtain this. A vote system may be in operation but any dissenting section of the population may come under threat from the government in control thus making the vote a mere stage show. Unlike the above a democratic state sees individual freedom as paramount to the success of a capitalist democracy, which has a system of government influenced by the whole population via the use of representatives. We assume the word peaceful used in this context is the opposite of war but war is the most extreme consequence of the bad reaction between two or more states. Actions of other states may cause another...
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