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Introduction : Looking for democratic constraint : Why democratic institutions matter ; The role of political information within democracies ; The recipe for democratic constraint ; Effects on what? ; Moving forward -- Democracies are not created equal: a theory of democratic constraint : Information, accountability, and principal-agent problems ; An uninformed, inattentive electorate ; Political opposition as whistleblowers ; Media institutions and the transmission of information ; Hearing the whistleblowers: the importance of the press ; Bringing together information generation and transmission ; Foreign policy responsiveness and international conflict behavior ; Initiation and the democratic peace ; Reciprocation and audience costs ; Coalition formation ; Conclusion and next steps -- Democratic constraint, the democratic peace, and conflict initiation : Period and structure of analysis ; Measuring conflict initiation ; Measuring the extent of opposition with political parties ; Measuring media access ; Measuring press freedom ; Additional controls ; Results ; Democratic constraint among democracies ; Alternative measures of conflict ; The independent effects of opposition and access ; Appendix 1: Statistical tables and robustness tests ; Appendix 2: The role of the Internet -- Looking for audience costs in all the wrong places: constraint and reciprocation : Research design ; Results ; Unpacking militarized disputes ; Compellent threats ; The problem of perception ; Appendix: Statistical tables and robustness tests -- Willing and politically able: democratic constraint and coalition joining : Iraq (2003): Operation Iraqi Freedom ; Afghanistan (2001): Operation Enduring Freedom ; Appendix : Statistical tables and robustness tests -- Downs meets the press: how party systems shape the news : Mapping news content onto the Downsian Premise ; Cases and data ; Results ; 2004 and 2009 European Election Studies (EES) ; Appendix : Statistical tables, robustness tests and content analysis codebook -- Coalition stories: cases from the Iraq Coalition : Case selection ; The United Kingdom ; Spain ; Poland ; Germany -- Conclusion : Information, constraint, and democratic foreign policy : Policy implications ; Recipe for a watchdog press: some prescriptions for media ownership ; Technological change, the Internet, and satellite television ; Moving forward. |
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9781400866472 (electronic bk.) |
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1400866472 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691164984 (hardback) |
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0691164983 (hardback) |
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9780691165233 (paper) |
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0691165238 (paper) |
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40025023757 |
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