When two countries are fully democratic, that is they score high on the polity scale, disputes between them decrease by 50%. But when one member of a country pair was either a low scoring democracy or a full autocracy, it doubled the chance of a quarrel. Russett and o'neil found that for every pair of at risk nations, when they entered, the amount of trade as a proportion of g d p decreased.

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