This effect gets stronger when looking at more severe conflicts; for wars (more than 1000 battle deaths), he estimates democratic dyads to have an 82% lower risk than autocratic dyads.
這種影響在檢視更嚴重的衝突時則更為明顯；以戰爭而言（超過1,000人戰鬥死亡），他估計民主國家比獨裁國家發生戰爭的可能性降低了82%。