Of course, where there are autocracies, a small group of people who decide what the country shall do, it may be very different.
Do not forget that the modern technique of minority autocracies is always to preserve the camouflage of popular institutions, while effectively stifling or suppressing the popular will.
The book presents earlier statistical studies and case studies showing that democracies and oligarchies conduct diplomacy very differently from autocracies.
In contrast, the leaders of autocracies are the survivors of a culture of violence against opponents.
Their discourse was one of ' twilight ' and ' decline ' as far as the autocracy was concerned, not of its liberalization.
Our results suggest that members of the coalition prefer monarchy or democracy to autocracy.
The difference in survivability between autocracy and democracy stems from differences in the relative importance of private and public goods.
I used the formula [(democracy autocracy) 10]/20 to yield [0,1] range of the scores, where 0 denotes lowest and 1 highest democracy score.
