True or False.

Answer:

False.

1/26/2006 10:55:29 PM

rebuttal?

you're an idiot.

1/26/2006 10:56:50 PM

well, the democratic election of lincoln led to war...so i say "false" as well

im not gonna touch the Iraq deal w/ a 20 ft pole

1/26/2006 11:02:14 PM

rebuttal?

Find a slogan.

1/26/2006 11:02:57 PM

False, but everyone already knew that, right?
A Democracy is no more likely to be peaceful than a monarchy.

Does anyone else think we should have a military coup to replace all the justices of the supreme court with strict constitutionalists. Any followers?

1/26/2006 11:12:30 PM

i'm with ya.

1/26/2006 11:25:08 PM

Democracies fight, but almost never with other democracies.

1/27/2006 12:58:25 PM

Answer:
http://courses.ncsu.edu/ps231/

1/27/2006 1:11:19 PM

Quote :

"Democracies fight, but almost never with other democracies."

1/27/2006 1:13:59 PM

obviously this thread was spawned by the biased and misleading book recently written that claims that EMERGING democracies are more prone to war.

HOWEVER - their claim hinges precariously on their idea of "emerging democracy" which, by their definition includes such governments as the dictatorship of slobodan milosevich and other such nations.

EVEN IF their theory was accurate, it is still undeniable that, in the end, democracies are far more peaceful to each other than other forms of government.

sorry commies.

[Edited on January 27, 2006 at 2:37 PM. Reason : s]

1/27/2006 2:37:00 PM

^ Out of curiosity, which book are you referring to?

1/27/2006 2:49:48 PM

whatever book NPR did a thing on this morning

1/27/2006 2:59:32 PM

ahaha, I'm in that class

1/27/2006 3:47:46 PM

False

1/27/2006 8:08:35 PM

false

Democracies lead to peace if the country is not full of crazy radical islamists.

Unfortunately, the middle east is chock full of crazies so its better to have a secular dictator in power. Give those people elections, and they'll vote suicide bombers into office.

1/27/2006 9:43:45 PM

In the minds of many, one of Winston’s Churchill’s most famous aphorisms cuts the conversation short: “[D]emocracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” (Eigen and Siegel 1993: 109) But this saying overlooks the fact that the governments vary in scope as well as form. In democracies the main alternative to majority rule is not dictatorship, but markets.

Democracy enthusiasts repeatedly acknowledge this. (MacEwan 1999; Soros 1998; Kuttner 1997, 1991, 1984; Greider 1997, 1992) When they lament the “weakening of democracy,” their main evidence is that markets face little government oversight, or even usurp the traditional functions of government. They often close with a “wake-up call” for voters to shrug off their apathy and make their voice heard. The heretical thought that rarely surfaces is that weakening democracy in favor of markets could be a good thing. No matter what you believe about how well markets work in absolute terms, if democracy starts to look worse, markets start to look better by comparison.

Economists have an undeserved reputation for “religious faith” in markets. No one has done more than economists to dissect the innumerable ways that markets can fail. After all their investigations, though, economists typically conclude that the man in the street — and the intellectual without economic training — underestimates how well markets work. (Caplan 2002a; Alston et al 1992; Blinder 1987; Schultze 1977) I maintain that something quite different holds for democracy: it is widely over-rated not only by the public but by most economists too. Thus, while the general public underestimates how well markets work, even economists underestimate markets’ virtues relative to the democratic alternative.

// end quote

1/27/2006 11:17:48 PM

democrat, republican, catholic, jew

jesus i wish everyone would just chill out

1/28/2006 3:32:02 AM

but they threaten our way of life!

1/28/2006 8:26:58 AM

Quote :

"(MacEwan 1999; Soros 1998; Kuttner 1997, 1991, 1984; Greider 1997, 1992)"

these citations are only useful if you include the footnotes. otherwise you just look like a community college student who's trying to sound smart

[Edited on January 28, 2006 at 8:59 AM. Reason : s]

1/28/2006 8:59:43 AM

I wasn't citing, I was quoting from elsewhere, verbatum. Take the text in concept form only, very little was/is presented as fact, merely opinion given assumptions.

1/28/2006 12:10:34 PM

What's wrong with community college students, Excoriator? You got a problem with other people saving money?

1/28/2006 12:14:05 PM

no, but they shouldn't pretend that they're smart either

1/28/2006 12:24:18 PM