Observation of Democratic peace

Dr. Michael Mousseau, professor and graduate coordinator, has recently published an article titled “Grasping the scientific evidence: The contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace.” This article appears in Conflict Management and Peace Science. The article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. Throughout the article, Dr. Mousseau has conducted a series of studies that have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace and has offered a theory and evidence that economic norms, specifically contractualist economy, appear to account for both the explanans (democracy) and the explanandum (peace) in the democratic peace research program.