Checks On Power

Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Ember, Carol R.Peace between participatory polities: a cross-cultural test of the "democracies rarely fight eac...
Ember, Carol R.Violence in the ethnographic record: results of cross-cultural research on war and aggression
Russett, BruceThe democratic peace in nonindustrial societies
Ember, Carol R. Warfare, atrocities, and political participation: eastern Africa

Associated Hypotheses (6)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Ember, Carol R."Political units with wider political participation engage in less warfare with one another than do less participatory political units" (579).
Ember, Carol R.When included in a model testing the relationship between several variables and frequency of internal warfare, food production will be a significant predictor of internal warfare frequency (12).
Russett, BruceThe frequency of warfare will be negatively associated with consultation, checks on power, removal of leaders, extent of political participation, and absence of fission and positively associated with population (108).
Ember, Carol R. There will be a replication of the Ember et al. (1992) internal warfare worldwide findings in eastern African societies.
Ember, Carol R. There will be an inverse relationship between political participation and committing atrocities.
Ember, Carol R. Adding three additional variables-little formalized leadership, natural disasters, and state-level organization- to the eastern African comparison would lead to a replication of the Ember et al. (1992) findings.

Associated OCMs

  1. community heads
  2. community councils
  3. form and rules of government