Sluka 6-7:"[scholar of democide R. J.] Rummel's central theoretical conclusion stresses the relationship between power and terror: 'as the arbitrary power of a regime increases massively, that is, as we move from democratic through authoritarian to totalitarian regimes, the amount of killing jumps by huge multiples' (1994:17). The more concentrated the power of the government, the more deaths; as the arbitrary power of regimes increases, the practice of terror increases: 'The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit [political mass murder]' (1994:1-2). Rummel argues that where absolute power exists, 'interests become polarized, a culture of violence develops, and war and state murder follow. Where, on the other hand, power is limited and accountable, interests are cross-pressured, a culture of nonviolence develops, and no wars occur and comparatively few citizens are murdered by the governing elite' (1994:23-24; emphasis added)."