How do audience costs help to explain the democratic peace?
a. As the audience in a democracy is always against war, it is difficult for a democratic leader to enter into war.
b. Audience costs no longer explain the democratic peace, as the audience in most democracies has a veryweak knowledge of politics
c. Audience costs describe the cost to a political leader of reneging on a promise. As there are strongeraudience costs in a democracy than in a non-democratic state, democratic leaders are less likely to break apromise and enter into war.
d. Citizens and leaders in democracies respect the institutions of democracy, not only in their own country, but inother countries as well. They reject the idea of forcibly conquering another democracy.
c
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