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Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition

Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0367444631
ISBN13: 9780367444631
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 23 2020
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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