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That is the widely accepted observation that democracies tend not to fight wars with one another even though they are not especially reluctant to fight with autocratic regimes. By looking within states at their domestic politics and institutionally induced behavior, the political economy perspective provides explanations of the democratic peace and associated empirical regularities while offering a cautionary tale for those who leap too easily to the inference that since pairs of democracies tend to interact peacefully; therefore it follows that they have strong normative incentives to promote democratic reform around the world.
Rational choices approaches have also helped elucidate new insights that contribute to our understanding of foreign policy. Some of these new insights and the tools of analysis from which they are derived have significantly contributed to the actual decision making process. Keywords: foreign policy , rational choice , international relations , game theory , political economy , states. Access to the complete content on Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies requires a subscription or purchase.
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Opinion and attitudes are central to the choices that citizens make and to the way they behave, which in turn are core outcomes in politics. Chapter 1 [PDF]. Given that the majority of the highest level research in Political Science is conducted in the language of quantitative methodology, students will learn the use of quantitative research methods as a tool to further their research and participation in debates of the social sciences. Order a full prospectus full-time. Interpretivism explains the context of the crisis frame and rational-choice theory explains why the normal frame was abandoned. Hechter, M.