Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900"Statistics of Democide" has two purposes. First, it links all the relevant estimates, sources, and calculations for each of the case studies in Death by Government, and all additional cases of lesser democide for which data have been collected. The value of this is the listing of each source, its estimate, and comments qualifying the estimate. From these others can check and evaluate author Rudolph Rummel's totals, refine and correct them, and build on this comprehensive set of data. These data are presented and annotated for pre-20th-century democide for the megamurderers and for the United States and lesser murderers. All data sources referenced in the democide tables are listed in the references. The methodological underpinnings for this collection have been given in Rummel's previous work, i. e. Death by Government. Second, having finished collecting all these data and completing the major case studies Rummel finally could systematically test the assumed inverse relationship between democracy and democide. That is the substance of this book. Rummel details the tests and summarizes them. Conclusion is that the diverse tests are positive and robust, that the less liberal democracy and the more totalitarian a regime, the more likely it will commit democide. The closer to absolute power, the more a regime's disposition to murder one's subjects or foreigners multiplies. As far as this work is concerned, Rummel concludes: "it is empirically true that Power kills, absolute Power kills absolutely." |
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... Deaths , and Estimated Democide 30 A.D. to 20 B.C ....... ..28-29 Table 3.1 . Japan's Democide in China and World War II : Estimates , Sources , and Calculations .... ..... 39-47 Table 4.1 . Cambodian Democide : Estimates , Sources ...
... Deaths , and Estimated Democide 30 A.D. to 20 B.C ....... ..28-29 Table 3.1 . Japan's Democide in China and World War II : Estimates , Sources , and Calculations .... ..... 39-47 Table 4.1 . Cambodian Democide : Estimates , Sources ...
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... deaths from genocide , concentration camps , forced labor , terror , massacres , and the like , to various component analyses . This is a powerful and robust method for defining independent empirical patterns in data and partialing out ...
... deaths from genocide , concentration camps , forced labor , terror , massacres , and the like , to various component analyses . This is a powerful and robust method for defining independent empirical patterns in data and partialing out ...
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... deaths by mistreatment , and the like - that for which corpses have been counted or estimated , surely but a fraction , add up to a range of near 89,000,000 to slightly over 260,000,000 million men , women , and children dead . An ...
... deaths by mistreatment , and the like - that for which corpses have been counted or estimated , surely but a fraction , add up to a range of near 89,000,000 to slightly over 260,000,000 million men , women , and children dead . An ...
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... death rate of al- most 5 percent per 100,000 forced laborers . This estimate is surely too low for the 17th to 19th centuries , given the lethal conditions for much of this labor and an annual death rate that in some cases may have ...
... death rate of al- most 5 percent per 100,000 forced laborers . This estimate is surely too low for the 17th to 19th centuries , given the lethal conditions for much of this labor and an annual death rate that in some cases may have ...
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... deaths tabulated per century in table 2.2 no doubt include war - related democide ( as tabulations of the civilian toll dur- ing World War II usually do ) . Even with this swelling of the war dead to- tals , the accumulated pre - 20 ...
... deaths tabulated per century in table 2.2 no doubt include war - related democide ( as tabulations of the civilian toll dur- ing World War II usually do ) . Even with this swelling of the war dead to- tals , the accumulated pre - 20 ...
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Amnesty International ANNUAL RATE Armenians assumed Authoritarian battle-dead bombing Bouthoul&Carrère Brogan calculated Cambodia camps Census Chetniks China cide civilian dead communist component analysis CONSOLIDATED 1945 correlation Croatia demo Democratic DEMOGRAPHIC YEARBOOK diversity DOMESTIC DEMOCIDE RATES estimate based ethnic Germans executed expellees Factor 1 Factor famine figure forced labor FOREIGN DEMOCIDE genocide German Global Data Manager gov't guerrillas high from line HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN includes Indians KAMPUCHEA Khmer Rouge Korean Kurds Lon Nol LOW MID HIGH low-high average massacre mid-value is low-high military dead minus line Moslems murdered O'Ballance official overall democide OVERALL RATE OVERALL TOTALS Pakistan patterns percent political population 1975 population deficit POWS prisoners Pritchard & Zaide rebel rebellion rebellion-dead refugees regimes regression Rummel Chapter Rummel Chapter 15 Samrin Sivard sources South Vietnam sum of lines terror toll TOTAL DEAD TOTAL DEMOCIDE Total Power totalitarian Turkey Uganda Vietnam Vietnamese violence WAR-DEAD William Eckhardt WORLD Young Turks
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