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Title

Strategic politicians, institutions, and foreign policy / edited by Randolph M. Siverson.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Siverson, Randolph M.

Description

x, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Most would agree that political leaders want to stay in office. What do their aspirations mean for foreign policy-making? The contributors to this book probe the way in which the desire of political leaders to stay in office shapes the choices they make in foreign policy. Moving beyond theories of international politics that emphasize the pursuit of power by the state as the goal of foreign policy, the writers look at the domestic political reasons why leaders might pursue greater power in the world for their states. In both the area of conflict policy and choices over economic policy, the essays demonstrate that leaders behave strategically, shaping their policies to satisfy key constituents whose support is necessary to keep them in power. Enhanced state power is used to satisfy constituents who will in turn be more likely to support the continued tenure of the leader.

Subject

• International relations
• Political leadership
• Political planning

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Limited governments, powerful states / Kenneth A. Schultz and Barry R. Weingast -- Evasive maneuvers? Reconsidering presidential use of executive agreements / Lisa L. Martin -- How voters shape the institutional framework of international negotiations / Fiona McGillivray -- Strategic actors or passive reactors? The political economy of U.S.-Japanese monetary relations / Keisuke Iida -- None dare call it reason: domestic incentives and the politics of war and peace / Kurt Taylor Gaubatz -- Domestic and international sources of foreign policy: alliance formation in the Middle East, 1948-78 / Michael J. Gilligan and W. Ben Hunt -- Electoral incentives and the political economy of national defense spending decisions / Atsushi Ishida -- Room to move: security, proaction, and institutions in foreign policy decision making / T. Clifton Morgan and Glenn Palmer -- Effect of foreign policy statements on foreign nations and domestic electorates / Alastair Smith -- War and the survival of political leaders: a comparative study of regime types and political accountablility / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Randolph M. Siverson.

ISBN

0472108425 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97035140^

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Harvard Library