All Republics should get +25 relations with all other Republics.

[Pellucid]

Because historically democracies are less likely to fight one another. You can read up here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory

 

[magnusvejby]

Merchant republic should certainly not since they are kinda rivals to each other, and in 1444 there was not many real democracys, but maybe the later government types as the constitutional republic should have the bonus.

 

[tobias.mb]

I almost laughed when you called republics democracies. They were most definitly not democratic. If anything merchant republics should consider each other rivals (and iirc they always have a trade dispute cb against each other, also).

 

[Pellucid]

Merchant republic should certainly not since they are kinda rivals to each other, and in 1444 there was not many real democracys, but maybe the later government types as the constitutional republic should have the bonus.

The democratic peace theory does not require them to be "real" democracies. It refers to any non-autocratic rule.

I almost laughed when you called republics democracies. They were most definitly not democratic. If anything merchant republics should consider each other rivals (and iirc they always have a trade dispute cb against each other, also).

See above, and do merchant republics OTHER than Venice and Genoa have a history of de facto rivalry? If anything things like the Hanseatic League make it seem like they were more likely to join together to force their way into non-republican lands.

 

[moscal]

Modern rules do not affect the past.

Besides - this theory is wrong.

 

[Mattius]

Portugal and I (Great Britain) were both Constitutional Republics and bitter rivals. I thought maybe we should get along better.

 

[Ashantai]

Genoa and Venice fought each other for control of trade for centuries. They were the main rivals to each other.

Even if that theory is true from the 19th century on it doesn't really apply to the 15th century.