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ID:
053516
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ID:
116241
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2012.
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This study examines whether democracies are better able to maintain commitments, focusing on the abandonment behavior of states in times of war. It argues that democracies are better able to maintain their wartime commitments because of the effective veto players within democratic polities and the practice of and respect for institutionalized decision-making procedures. This argument is tested with a statistical analysis of the wartime commitment model and illustrated with a historical case study. As expected, this study finds that democracies are less likely to abandon their partners during war and shows that the effectiveness of veto players is the important causal mechanism driving the main finding. Additional results of this study are that war duration, the expectation of victory, the size of the coalition, and the presence of the United States systematically affect the likelihood of abandonment, while domestic leadership changes, formal alliances, and other major powers do not have an effect.
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ID:
123148
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2012.
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Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Republic of Korea (ROK) is currently one of the countries with most pro-American attitudes. We investigate what is behind the extraordinary resilience in US popular standing in an allegedly least likely setting. Using survey data from 2002 and 2007 and a novel methodology, Classification and Regression Tree models, we test whether US standing is: (1) a matter of interests, i.e. a reward that the USA receives because it either provides security or international public goods; or (2) whether it is a matter of image, i.e. the recognition that the USA is a role model to emulate. We find that across a large number of predictors, the Korean public mostly liked the USA because they liked American ways of doing business, which gives support to the image hypothesis. Security interests played a secondary role in shaping US standing, while the provision of international public goods had no impact in the popular assessment of the USA in the ROK.
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ID:
065769
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084951
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