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Peaceful Parties and Puzzling Personalists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2003

MARK PECENY  and
CAROLINE C. BEER
MARK PECENY
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1121 (markpec@unm.edu).
CAROLINE C. BEER
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vermont, Old Mill, Room 516, 94 University Place, Burlington, VT 05405-0114 (Caroline.Beer@uvm.edu).
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Abstract

Reiter and Stam advance the study of the conflict behavior of authoritarian regimes in two ways. First, they clearly demonstrate the importance of using directed dyad data sets for studying mixed pairs of political regimes. Second, they have refocused our attention on the question of decisional constraints and international conflict. This response examines the dispute patterns of a specific mixed pair of authoritarian regimes, single-party regimes, and personalist dictatorships. We find that single-party regimes are significantly less likely to start militarized disputes against personalist dictatorships than is true of other types of regime dyads. In contrast, personalist regimes are somewhat more likely to initiate militarized disputes against single-party regimes than is the norm for other regime dyads. These findings indicate that the relationships among specific types of authoritarian regimes may be as consequential as the relationships between democracies and authoritarian regimes of any type. They also indicate that we need to examine further the role that institutional constraints play in shaping the conflict behavior of authoritarian regimes.We thank Chris Butler for his comments and Dan Reiter for sharing his data.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 97 , Issue 2 , May 2003 , pp. 339 - 342
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© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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