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PUBLIC OPINION, SECURITY THREATS, AND FOREIGN POLICY FORMATION: How Domestic Public Opinion and External Security Threats Influence Foreign Policy Decision-making - Couverture souple

Davis, William

 
9783639126471: PUBLIC OPINION, SECURITY THREATS, AND FOREIGN POLICY FORMATION: How Domestic Public Opinion and External Security Threats Influence Foreign Policy Decision-making
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639126475 ISBN 13 : 9783639126471
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009

Synopsis

This analysis focuses on the domestic factors, such as public opinion, and international factors, such as security threats, which affect foreign policy outputs. Much research has suggested that governments¿ foreign policy outputs are responsive to public opinion in advanced democratic countries. Using the cases of Germany and several US Western allies, I offer a theory of the effect of public opinion on foreign policy. I employ several statistical and cross-sectional time series analyses as well as process tracing to test the theory and the generalizability of the hypothesis of an opinion-foreign policy nexus. I find that the predicted effect of public opinion on foreign policy outputs to be confounded by such factors as security threats. I conclude that a divergence between the threat perception of leaders and of the public is likely to result in a lack of congruence between public opinion and a state¿s foreign policy outputs. Convergence between leaders and public opinion among US allies in post-Cold War period and particularly in Germany may have necessitated a reassessment of the longstanding foreign policy relationship with the US.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This analysis focuses on the domestic factors, such as public opinion, and international factors, such as security threats, which affect foreign policy outputs. Much research has suggested that governments¿ foreign policy outputs are responsive to public opinion in advanced democratic countries. Using the cases of Germany and several US Western allies, I offer a theory of the effect of public opinion on foreign policy. I employ several statistical and cross-sectional time series analyses as well as process tracing to test the theory and the generalizability of the hypothesis of an opinion-foreign policy nexus. I find that the predicted effect of public opinion on foreign policy outputs to be confounded by such factors as security threats. I conclude that a divergence between the threat perception of leaders and of the public is likely to result in a lack of congruence between public opinion and a state¿s foreign policy outputs. Convergence between leaders and public opinion among US allies in post-Cold War period and particularly in Germany may have necessitated a reassessment of the longstanding foreign policy relationship with the US.

Biographie de l'auteur

William Davis is a faculty member in the Government and Foreign Affairs department at Walsh University in the US. He received a BA degree from the University of the State of New York, a Master¿s degree from Harvard University in Government, a Master¿s and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the Florida State University.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639126475
ISBN 13 
9783639126471
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
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