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Stefan A. Schirm - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Refining Domestic Politics theories of IPE: A societal approach to governmental preferences:
Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Stefan A. SchirmAbstract:Domestic Politics theories of international political economy and the recent disruptions in international cooperation and trade apparently induced by Domestic discontent have shown the crucial role Domestic forces play in influencing governmental preferences. This article contributes to this theoretical school, first, by assessing seminal works on the ideational, material, and institutional dimensions of Domestic Politics, and second, by conceptualising the ‘societal approach’ to fill a major gap in Domestic Politics theorising. The societal approach asks under which conditions value-based societal ideas, Domestic institutions, and material interests matter in shaping governmental preferences. When do ideas prevail over interests and vice versa? How do they interact with each other and with Domestic institutions? The societal approach includes all three Domestic variables as potential driving forces for governmental preferences and conceives them both as individual and as interacting forces. Most importantly, it complements Domestic Politics theories by proposing hypotheses on the conditions for the influence of each variable on governmental preferences. The article brings together previously conceived parts of the societal approach and considerably expands it.
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Domestic Politics and the Societal Approach
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary International Political Economy, 2018Co-Authors: Stefan A. SchirmAbstract:Theories of Domestic Politics focus on ideational expectations, material interests, and regulatory institutions to explain governmental preference formation. While the possible relevancy of the international power, transnationalism, and regimes is not disputed, Domestic Politics theories argue that Domestic actors and structures influence governmental preferences prior to international circumstances. The societal approach to International Political Economy (IPE) develops previous Domestic Politics theories further, especially by conceptualising the conditions under which either value-based ideas or material interests prevail in shaping governmental preferences and under which Domestic institutions matter. This chapter discusses central Domestic Politics theories, presents the innovations of the societal approach, and exemplifies its explanatory power in a case study on the controversies between emerging and developed countries on global economic governance in the Group of 20 (G20).
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The Domestic Politics of European Preferences Towards Global Economic Governance
New Global Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Stefan A. SchirmAbstract:Why is global economic governance often marked by controversies among EU member states despite their commitment to joint action? European members of the G20 diverge over public debt to stimulate growth and over global trade imbalances. These issues express differences in economic interests, such as competitiveness, as well as ideational divergences regarding deficit spending and the role of the government in steering the economy. Therefore, Domestic Politics theories seem to constitute a necessary complement to integration theories in explaining European governments’ preferences. In applying the societal approach, I argue that Domestic value-based ideas and material interests shape governmental preferences in international political economy. In doing so, ideas prevail when fundamental economic policy issues such as public debt are at stake, while interests prevail, when governance directly affects the costs and benefits of specific economic sectors. These arguments are analysed by comparing the Domestic Politics of British, French, German and Italian positions towards two policy debates in the G20.
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Domestic Politics-Theorien und Societal Approach
Theorien der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie, 2014Co-Authors: Stefan A. SchirmAbstract:Theorien der endogenen Praferenzformation wie etwa Domestic-Politics-Ansatze und die Weiterentwicklung im Societal Approach zielen auf die gesellschaftsorientierte Erklarung von Regierungspolitik in der Internationalen Politischen Okonomie. Forschungsfragen betreffen aktuell beispielsweise die Kontroversen in der G20 uber die Steuerung der Weltwirtschaft, die unterschiedlichen Reaktionen von Regierungen gegenuber der Weltfinanzkrise sowie die Varianz von Regierungspositionen bei der Reform internationaler Organisationen.
Elizabeth N. Saunders - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Domestic Politics of Nuclear Choices—A Review Essay
International Security, 2019Co-Authors: Elizabeth N. SaundersAbstract:When and how do Domestic Politics influence a state's nuclear choices? Recent scholarship on nuclear security develops many Domestic-political explanations for different nuclear decisions. These ex...
Shujiro Urata - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Free Trade Agreements and Domestic Politics: The Case of the Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement
Asian Economic Policy Review, 2013Co-Authors: Megumi Naoi, Shujiro UrataAbstract:What is the role of Domestic Politics in facilitating or constraining a government's decision to participate in free trade agreements (FTAs)? This paper seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Domestic Politics in Japan over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). In particular, we ask why the opposition to the TPP encompasses a much broader segment of society than is predicted by trade theorems. We show that a broader protectionist coalition can emerge through persuasion and policy campaigns by the elites, in particular, powerful protectionist interests expending resources to persuade the uncertain public.
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free trade agreements and Domestic Politics the case of the trans pacific partnership agreement
Asian Economic Policy Review, 2013Co-Authors: Megumi Naoi, Shujiro UrataAbstract:What is the role of Domestic Politics in facilitating or constraining a government's decision to participate in free trade agreements (FTAs)? This paper seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Domestic Politics in Japan over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). In particular, we ask why the opposition to the TPP encompasses a much broader segment of society than is predicted by trade theorems. We show that a broader protectionist coalition can emerge through persuasion and policy campaigns by the elites, in particular, powerful protectionist interests expending resources to persuade the uncertain public.
Galen Jackson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Showdown That Wasn't: U.S.-Israeli Relations and American Domestic Politics, 1973–75
International Security, 2015Co-Authors: Galen JacksonAbstract:How influential are Domestic Politics on U.S. foreign affairs? With regard to Middle East policy, how important a role do ethnic lobbies, Congress, and public opinion play in influencing U.S. strat...
Joe D. Hagan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Domestic Politics and War Outside the Democratic Peace
Mershon International Studies Review, 1997Co-Authors: Joe D. HaganAbstract:Domestic Sources of Global Change by Zeev Maoz is an important book that takes the already vibrant research on Domestic Politics and international conflict in new and meaningful directions. Although Maoz has authored some of the major works on the democratic peace thesis (Maoz and Abdolali 1989; Maoz and Russett 1993), this volume is not about the rise of democracy and its international consequences. The first hint that such is the case is found in Maoz's opening statement that "the more things change, the more things remain the same" ("plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"). Rather, in ways that expand greatly on his 1989 'Joining the Club of Nations" essay, Domestic Sources of Global Change focuses on the international ramifications of another equally important, although less studied, dynamic of Domestic political systems: regime change. The book's contributions to the international relations literature are twofold. First, it offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework that suggests the reciprocal effects between transformations in the international system (global and regional) and those in Domestic political systems. Second, it contains an impressive set of systematic, empirical analyses of key elements of the framework using now standard data on political regimes and on wars and militarized international disputes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By linking these theoretical and empirical contributions, Maoz points convincingly to another connection between Domestic Politics and war that does not involve the democratic peace. This alternative is less at odds with realism yet broadens rather than sidetracks ongoing research by adhering to the conventional research design found in the democratic peace literature. Domestic Sources of Global Change is organized as follows. Its opening chapter addresses two theoretical questions that remain central throughout the book: (1) what constitutes significant global change, and (2) what are the sources of global change? Maoz's major theoretical innovation is a set of three models that are distinguished in terms of the source of global change: systemic, regional, and national. The next five chapters, which constitute the bulk of the book, develop specific aspects of these models and empirically test a rough sequence of them. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the linkages between state formation and international systems, showing that new states emerge in clusters (the 1990s are not unique) as a result of external and Domestic pressures and that new states with "revolutionary" origins destabilize international Politics either by initiating conflict or by attracting it. In chapters 4 and 5, Maoz shifts his focus to explain the conflict proneness of "old"
