Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper delves further into the relationship between regime type and state-sponsored mass murder. I disaggregate regimes into theoretically relevant component elements and, revisiting the analyses of the State Failures Task Force published by Harff (2003), I examine which if any institutional or procedural components of democracy negatively affect the likelihood of the state using lethal force to eliminate an entire domestic communal or political group. The results confirm some of R. J. Rummel's findings regarding democracy and the lethal state, but are unable to help explain how and why democracies decrease the likelihood of genocide or politicide.
2. Armstrong, II, David."Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death: Repression in the Democratic Context" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, <Not Available>. 2009-11-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p140562_index.html>
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This work investigates the variation of repression and violations of civil liberties within democracies. I find that even withindemocracies when domestic threats are present, the civil liberties of citizens hang tenuously in the balance.
