Research shows that the democratic nations have much less democide or murder by government.

He argues that there is a relation between political power and democide.

Rummel created the term democide to include assaults on political groups.

He finds that democide has killed six times as many people as battles.

Empirical studies on this have found that democracies have little democide.

One of his main findings is that liberal democracies have much less democide than authoritarian regimes.

Such actions are often also described as democide or genocide, which has been argued to be equivalent to state terrorism.

Therefore, he believed it was not an intentional famine and thus not a democide.

For books, articles, data, and analyses regarding democide, see Rummel's website.

Famine is classified by Rummel as democide if it fits the definition above.

The vast majority of the victims of democide were in Latin America.

According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century.

Democide is the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.

Based on this new evidence, Rummel now believes the famine was intentional and considers it a democide.

In order to avoid confusion over which meaning is intended, Rummel created the term democide for the third meaning.

For example, government-sponsored killings for political reasons would be considered democide under Rummel's hypothesis.

His research shows that the death toll from democide is far greater than the death toll from war.

After studying over 8,000 reports of government caused deaths, Rummel estimates that there have been 262 million victims of democide in the last century.

Democide requires intention.

Empirical studies (see democide) have found that democracies, including the United States, have killed much fewer civilians than dictatorships.

See Laogai, democide.

Summary of different estimates for total 20th century democide Note that only some of numbers are totals for the Communist states.

Rummel did include famine in democide if he deemed it the result of a deliberate policy, as he did with the Holodomor.

He has also made his many sources and the calculations used, from a pre-publisher manuscript of his book Statistics of Democide, available online.