explain the essential conditions for the successful working of a democracy.
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The democratic peace theory posits that democracies are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies.[a] Among proponents of the democratic peace theory, several factors are held as motivating peace between democratic states:
Democratic leaders are forced to accept responsibility for war losses to a voting public;
Publicly accountable statespeople are inclined to establish diplomatic institutions for resolving international tensions;
Democracies are not inclined to view countries with adjacent policy and governing doctrine as hostile;
Publicly accountable democracies require justification to start a conflict and are thus slow to mobilise, minimising the risk of a surprise aggressive attack;
Democracies tend to possess greater public wealth than other states, and therefore eschew war to preserve infrastructure and resources.
Those who dispute this theory often do so on grounds that it conflates correlation with causation, and that the academic definitions of 'democracy' and 'war' can be manipulated so as to manufacture an artificial trend.
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