Free Download Chad Atkinson, "Dangerous Democracies and Partying Prime Ministers: Domestic Political Contexts and Foreign Policy"
English | ISBN: 0739133594 | 2010 | 133 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book examines why elected leaders pursue foreign policies that are remarkably distant from their proposed policies. To investigate this pattern this book develops a model of how the foreign policy preferences of the executive and the government in the legislature interact over the electoral cycle to affect democratic leaders’ foreign policy choices. The executive is cross-pressured when the foreign policy that the legislature wants is not the same policy that the executive’s constituents want. The executive must choose a policy that balances the conflicting demands of remaining in a productive government (pleasing the legislature) and obtaining votes in the next election (pleasing constituents).
