Reputation and status as motives for war

A Dafoe, J Renshon, P Huth - Annual Review of Political …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Justifications for war often invoke reputational or social aspirations: the need to protect
national honor, status, reputation for resolve, credibility, and respect. Studies of these …

Elites in the making and breaking of foreign policy

EN Saunders - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who
elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses …

COVID-19 and the Politics of Crisis

PY Lipscy - International Organization, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the
politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important …

A bottom‐up theory of public opinion about foreign policy

JD Kertzer, T Zeitzoff - American journal of political science, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
If public opinion about foreign policy is such an elite‐driven process, why does the public
often disagree with what elites have to say? We argue here that elite cue‐taking models in …

Public opinion and decisions about military force in democracies

M Tomz, JLP Weeks, K Yarhi-Milo - International Organization, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
Many theories of international relations assume that public opinion exerts a powerful effect
on foreign policy in democracies. Previous research, based on observational data, has …

Abstraction and detail in experimental design

R Brutger, JD Kertzer, J Renshon… - American Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed
their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of trade‐offs …

Decomposing audience costs: Bringing the audience back into audience cost theory

JD Kertzer, R Brutger - American Journal of Political Science, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
According to a growing tradition in International Relations, one way governments can
credibly signal their intentions in foreign policy crises is by creating domestic audience …

Public opinion and the democratic peace

MR Tomz, JLP Weeks - American political science review, 2013‏ - cambridge.org
One of the most striking findings in political science is the democratic peace: the absence of
war between democracies. Some authors attempt to explain this phenomenon by …

Sailing the water's edge: The domestic politics of American foreign policy

HV Milner, D Tingley - 2015‏ - torrossa.com
Writing this book has been a wonderful intellectual journey. It began when Dustin arrived at
Princeton University as a graduate student in the fall of 2005. Originally, our focus was on …

Map** the boundaries of elite cues: How elites shape mass opinion across international issues

A Guisinger, EN Saunders - International Studies Quarterly, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
When and how do elite messages shape mass opinion on international issues? Do
informational or partisan components of elite cues dominate? Recent survey experiments …