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Partisan Polarization and International Politics.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Partisan Polarization and International Politics./
作者:	Myrick, Rachel Maureen.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	353 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03B.
標題:	Rhetoric. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28550777
ISBN:	9798522939823

Partisan Polarization and International Politics.
Myrick, Rachel Maureen.

Partisan Polarization and International Politics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 353 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores the relationship between partisan polarization and international politics. The project asks two questions. The primary question is: How does polarization affect the way democracies behave in international politics? Relative to non-democracies, democracies are generally better at keeping foreign policy consistent despite regular leadership turnover (stability advantage), credibly signaling information to adversaries (credibility advantage), and maintaining their international commitments (reliability advantage). I argue that extreme polarization undermines these "democratic advantages" by eroding the vertical and horizontal constraints on political power that confer them. I build evidence for this argument by leveraging new cross-national data on foreign policy positions of executives in 55 democratic countries from 1945-2015. I then focus on how polarization affects contemporary American foreign policy. Drawing on three original survey experiments, analyses of descriptive data on the behavior of political officials, and a series of elite interviews conducted in Washington, D.C., I show that growing polarization makes the United States a less credible adversary and less reliable ally. The secondary question this dissertation asks is: How does a state's security environment affect domestic polarization? A common explanation for the increasing polarization in contemporary American foreign policy is the absence of external threat. I identify two mechanisms through which threats could reduce polarization: by revealing information about an adversary that elicits a bipartisan response from policymakers (information mechanism) and by heightening the salience of national relative to partisan identity (identity mechanism). Using three methods-computational text analysis of congressional speeches, examination of historic public opinion polls, and a survey experiment about a security threat posed by China-I find that the external threat hypothesis has limited ability to explain either polarization in US foreign policy or affective polarization among the American public. Instead, responses to external threats reflect the domestic political environment in which they are introduced. The findings cast doubt on predictions that new foreign threats will inherently create partisan unity.Overall, this project emphasizes that partisan polarization is an important and underexplored source of variation in democratic foreign policymaking. I argue that we have little evidence that international threats have major impacts on domestic polarization. However, polarization over foreign affairs has important-and largely negative-consequences for the stability, credibility, and reliability of democratic states. As more democracies grapple with partisan polarization, this dissertation highlights the need to understand the relationship between domestic polarization and international politics.

ISBN: 9798522939823Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Rhetoric.

Partisan Polarization and International Politics.
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