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050 00 $aJC423$b.R794 1997
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100 1 $aRummel, R. J.$q(Rudolph J.),$d1932-2014.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79045176
245 10 $aPower kills :$bdemocracy as a method of nonviolence /$cR.J. Rummel.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bTransaction Publishers,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $aix, 246 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$gPt. I.$tThe Most Important Fact of Our Time.$g2.$tNo War between Democracies.$g3.$tDemocracy Limits Bilateral Violence.$g4.$tDemocracies are Least Warlike.$g5.$tDemocracies are Most Internally Peaceful.$g6.$tDemocracies Don't Murder Their Citizens --$gPt. II.$tWhy are Democracies Nonviolent?$g7.$tA New Fact?$g8.$tWhat is to be Explained?$g9.$tFirst-Level Explanation: The People's Will.$g10.$tSecond-Level Explanation: Cross-Pressures, Exchange Culture, and In-Group Perception.$g11.$tThird-Level Explanation I: Social Field and Freedom.$g12.$tThird-Level Explanation II: Antifield and Power.$g13.$tPower Kills.
520 $aThis volume is the most recent of a comprehensive effort by R. J. Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder, or what he calls democide. It is the fifth in a series of volumes in which he offers a detailed analysis of the 120,000,000 people killed as a result of government action or direct intervention. In Power Kills, Rummel offers a realistic and practical solution to war, democide, and other collective violence.
520 8 $aRummel observes that well-established democracies do not make war on and rarely commit lesser violence against each other. The more democratic two nations are, the less likely is war or smaller-scale violence between them. The more democratic a nation is, the less severe its overall foreign violence, the less likely it will have domestic collective violence, and the less its democide.
520 8 $aRummel argues that the evidence supports overwhelmingly the most important fact of our time: democracy is a method of nonviolence.
650 0 $aDemocracy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036647
650 0 $aNonviolence.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092373
650 0 $aPeace.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098940
852 00 $bleh$hJC423$i.R794 1997