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- Title
Pressure for War: When Constituents' Concerns over America's Prestige Drive Presidents' Foreign Policy.
- Authors
Ribar, David T.
- Abstract
Do presidents respond to their constituents' status‐driven preferences when making foreign policy decisions? Recent work has explained how the values and beliefs that national leaders hold influence their conflict decision making but has left unexamined the role of their constituents. Taking the American South and its unique status concerns as a case study, I use data from the Correlates of War Project and the International Crisis Behavior Project to examine whether presidents' use‐of‐force decisions are related to their relative dependence on Southern constituents. Using regression methods, permutations, and a variety of other tests including an examination of the Southern realignment, I demonstrate repeatedly that presidents are responsive to the demands of their constituents when deciding whether to use military force.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; PRESIDENTS of the United States; DECISION making in international relations; CONSTITUENTS (Persons); WAR; PUBLIC opinion
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2021, Vol 51, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psq.12711