Democratic Foreign Policy Making

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Divided Government and International Cooperation: An Overview

   • Robert Pahre

   Pages 1-19

3. Domestic Veto Institutions, Divided Government, and the Status Quo: A Spatial Model of Two-Level Games with Complete Information

   • Thomas H. Hammond, Brandon C. Prins

   Pages 21-82

4. Do Democracies Trade More Freely?

   • B. Peter Rosendorff

   Pages 83-105

5. Divided Government and International Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century

   • Robert Pahre

   Pages 107-132

6. Divided Government and the Ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty

   • Simon Hug, Thomas König

   Pages 133-150

7. Divided Government and the Resolution of Territorial Disputes

   • Todd Allee, Paul Huth

   Pages 151-174

8. Conclusion: Democracy and Foreign Policy

   • Robert Pahre

   Pages 175-200

9. Back Matter

   Pages 201-243

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Leading scholars from the United States and the European Union examine how democracies make foreign policy when their citizens disagree. The authors focus in particular on differences of opinion between the legislature and the executive - often called 'divided government' - and the constraints of public opinion on a leader's actions.

• democracy
• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• executive
• foreign policy
• government
• Institution
• Policy
• european union politics

'The so-called Schelling conjecture, named after Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling, is a key proposition in the applied bargaining literature. This 'paradox of weakness' suggests that the weak negotiator is often more successful than its resourceful and unconstrained counterpart. This volume explores in an exemplary fashion the relevance of the Schelling conjecture and some related hypotheses on how democracies negotiate with other states and how successful they are at the bargaining table. The theoretical and empirical work presented by this truly international research team offers new challenges and is presented with hallmark rigor and sophistication. Their collective tour de force will shape the negotiation and cooperation literature for years to come.' - Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz, and Executive Editor European Union Politics

ROBERT PAHRE is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the European Union Centre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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