Politics at the Water’s Edge

Kristopher W. Ramsay
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Kristopher W. Ramsay: Department of Political Science and, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2004, vol. 48, issue 4, 459-486

Abstract: The role of domestic politics is investigated, using a model to show how domestic opposition during a crisis can reveal to a rival state private information about the incumbent. In particular, the public nature of democratic competition results in the institutionally induced credibility of the message.

Keywords: domestic politics; democratic competition; crisis bargaining; foreign policy; electoral competition; international relations; international crises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002704266156

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