Dyadic democracy is operationalized as the weaker member’s democracy score.

Evidence

The standard basic-level hypothesis is between a military conflict dependent variable (e.g., militarized disputes or crises) and a dyadic democracy independent variable. The weakest link is used to make up that basic-level, dyadic democracy independent variable which is then correlated with the dependent conflict variable. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 123

Categorization

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