War and Democratic Constraint : How the Public Influences Foreign Policy /

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"Why do some democracies reflect their citizens' foreign policy preferences better than others? What roles do the media, political parties, and the electoral system play in a democracy's decision to join or avoid a war? War and Democratic Constraint shows that the key to how a governm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Baum, Matthew A., 1965- (Autor), Potter, Philip B. K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Macht
Öffentliche Meinung
Politische Berichterstattung
Krieg
Entscheidungsfindung
Aussenpolitik
Demokratie
Political participation.
International relations > Public opinion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Participation politique.
Relations internationales > Prise de decision > Participation des citoyens.
Relations internationales > Opinion publique.
International relations > Decision making > Citizen participation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Looking for democratic constraint : Why democratic institutions matter ; The role of political information within democracies ; The recipe for democratic constraint ; Effects on what? ; Moving forward
  • Democracies are not created equal: a theory of democratic constraint : Information, accountability, and principal-agent problems ; An uninformed, inattentive electorate ; Political opposition as whistleblowers ; Media institutions and the transmission of information ; Hearing the whistleblowers: the importance of the press ; Bringing together information generation and transmission ; Foreign policy responsiveness and international conflict behavior ; Initiation and the democratic peace ; Reciprocation and audience costs ; Coalition formation ; Conclusion and next steps
  • Democratic constraint, the democratic peace, and conflict initiation : Period and structure of analysis ; Measuring conflict initiation ; Measuring the extent of opposition with political parties ; Measuring media access ; Measuring press freedom ; Additional controls ; Results ; Democratic constraint among democracies ; Alternative measures of conflict ; The independent effects of opposition and access ; Appendix 1: Statistical tables and robustness tests ; Appendix 2: The role of the Internet
  • Looking for audience costs in all the wrong places: constraint and reciprocation : Research design ; Results ; Unpacking militarized disputes ; Compellent threats ; The problem of perception ; Appendix: Statistical tables and robustness tests
  • Willing and politically able: democratic constraint and coalition joining : Iraq (2003): Operation Iraqi Freedom ; Afghanistan (2001): Operation Enduring Freedom ; Appendix : Statistical tables and robustness tests
  • Downs meets the press: how party systems shape the news : Mapping news content onto the Downsian Premise ; Cases and data ; Results ; 2004 and 2009 European Election Studies (EES) ; Appendix : Statistical tables, robustness tests and content analysis codebook
  • Coalition stories: cases from the Iraq Coalition : Case selection ; The United Kingdom ; Spain ; Poland ; Germany
  • Conclusion : Information, constraint, and democratic foreign policy : Policy implications ; Recipe for a watchdog press: some prescriptions for media ownership ; Technological change, the Internet, and satellite television ; Moving forward.

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