In this paper, we summarize a series of experimental studies that show that democracies don't fight each other because their leaders have very few political incentives to do so. The use of force against other democracies is perceived by the public and by leaders of democratic states as a failure...

The concept of policy makers' familiarity with a decision task has received considerable attention in recent years in the literature on decision making by analogy, intuitive decision making, and dynamic versus static decision making. The effect of familiarity on the decision strategy change of...

A growing number of studies in international relations use experiments. Roth (1995) discusses at least three purposes for experiments: (i) testing theoretically derived models, or ''speaking to theorists''; (ii) data generation, which he called ''searching for facts,''; and (iii) ''searching for...