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Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition (Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis) - Softcover

Book 7 of 8: Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis

Chryssogelos, Angelos

 
9780367647704: Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies: Cleavages, Ideas, Competition (Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367647702 ISBN 13: 9780367647704
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

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.

With a novel framework which bridges concepts of international relations and comparative politics, the book will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of international relations theory, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics, and generally to anyone wanting to understand how and when parties, elections and voters contribute to international change.

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About the Author

Angelos Chryssogelos is lecturer (assistant professor) in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367647702
ISBN 13 
9780367647704
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208