A Boom with Review
How Retrospective Oversight Increases the Foreign Policy Ability of Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11623980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Colaresi (0000-0001-9574-5723, Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 671-689 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00567.x |
| OpenAlex | W1480657384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 53 |
In the ongoing debate concerning whether democracies can carry out effective national security policy, the role of transparency costs has received little attention. I argue for a more nuanced understanding of how some democracies that possess specific investigative institutions, such as national security–relevant freedom of information laws, legislative oversight powers, and press freedoms, are able to avoid the problems of which democracy skeptics warn. Using a new dataset on national security accountability institutions in democracies within a Bradley‐Terry framework, I find that national security oversight mechanisms raise the probability that a democracy wins international disputes as well as increasing the expected number of enemy casualties, as compared to democracies that lack effective oversight. Contra previous theories of foreign policy efficacy, I find that the chances for democratic foreign policy success are maximized when competitive elections are linked to institutions that increase the retrospective revelation of previously classified information
Accountability · Democracy · Economics · Foreign policy · Freedom of information · Law and economics · Legislature · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Skepticism · Transparency (behavior · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration
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Volatile States in International Politics
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Unnamed but Reassuring
Vengeful Citizens, Violent States
Democratic Accountability and Foreign Security Policy
Secrecy in Europe
How foreign information campaigns shape US public pronouncements about civil wars
Enemies or allies? How NGOs can push the military towards transparency around the use of force
Democracy, Transparency, and Secrecy in Crisis
Following an Experienced Shepherd
The Impact of Context on the Ability of Leaders to Signal Resolve
Democratization in Conflict Research
Secret Innovation
Holding agencies accountable
Public Reactions to Secret Negotiations in International Politics
A Menace to the Democratic Peace? Dyadic and Systemic Difference
Restoring Legitimacy
A Manifesto, in 140 Characters or Fewer
With friends like these, who needs democracy? The effect of transnational support from rivals on post-conflict democratization
Popular vs. elite democratic structures and international peace
Strategic Reporting
Democracy and Coercive Diplomacy
After Victory
Interests, Institutions, and Information
Neoclassical realism and domestic interest groups
France and the Nazi Menace
Democracies at War
Democratic Commitments
The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century
Politics Among Nations
The MID 3 data set, 1993–2001
The unpublished manuscript
The Logic of Political Survival
France and the Nazi Menace
Silent Victory
The MID3 Data Set, 1993—2001
Reconstructing the correlates of war dataset on material capabilities of states, 1816–1985
Democracy and Victory
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Unanswered Threats
The Madman Nuclear Alert
Another Skirmish in the Battle over Democracies and War
Yalta and Potsdam
The Rabin Memoirs
Myths of Empire
"The Market for "Lemons
Theory of international politics
After victory
Sowing the Seeds of Conflict
Policy failure and public support
Going Private
Bones of Contention
The Declining Advantages of Democracy
Identifying Rivals and Rivalries in World Politics
A Supply Side Theory of Mediation1
The Democratic Advantage
Diplomacy and domestic politics
The Benefit of the Doubt
Secrecy and International Relations
Tracking Democracy's Third Wave with the Polity III Data
One Thing Leads to Another
The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory
Powerful Pacifists
Domestic Political Audiences and the Escalation of International Disputes
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |