Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies
Angelos Chryssogelos, "Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies "
English | ISBN: 0367444631 | 2020 | 196 pages | EPUB | 510 KB
English | ISBN: 0367444631 | 2020 | 196 pages | EPUB | 510 KB
How do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies.
The book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party systems as the context in which parties’ ideologies receive precise content and their preferences are formed. The central claim is that foreign policy change arises from within transformed discursive contexts of party competition, when a new language of politics that constitutes anew parties’ self-understanding of what they stand for and compete over emerges in a party system. By comparing cases of contested foreign policy change, the book shows how such transformations in party competition determine whether and when international pressures on a state will translate into decisions to institute foreign policy change and what degree of change will be ultimately implemented.
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