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David Sanders
Political Science and International Relations
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Conclusion
In this chapter, the volume editors pull together the various themes explored in the individual chapters and summarise their implications for the health of contemporary liberal democracies. Potential support f...
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Authoritarian Populist Opinion in Europe
Recent research in the UK has shown that an authoritarian populist (AP) cluster of attitudes centring on opposition to immigration, cynicism about human rights, disapproval of the EU, support for a robust defe...
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Introduction
This chapter describes the book’s general approach to authoritarian populism, which is regarded as a two-pronged phenomenon. On the one hand, it consists of leaders who are elected on simplistic, nationalistic...
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The Politics of Austerity: Modeling British Attitudes Towards Public Spending Cuts
The fallout from the 2008 financial crises has prompted acrimonious national debates in many Western democracies over the need for substantial budget cuts. Among economic and political elites there is broad ag...
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Reflections on the 2005 General Election: Some Speculations on How The Conservatives Can Win Next Time
It is widely believed that the Conservatives can significantly improve their chances in the next general election by ‘moving to the centre of the political spectrum'. This paper uses data from the 2005 British...
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the 2001 general election in britain
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Voting and the Electorate
Has the 1997 election, with its stunning Labour victory, long foretold in record Labour opinion poll leads, produced a genuine realignment of British electoral politics? Does it foreshadow a decisive alteratio...
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Foreign and Defence Policy
The international situation that confronts nation-states changes constantly. New international organisations develop, others atrophy and decay. Trade patterns vary as new markets and sources of supply are foun...
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Introduction: Lawmaking, Co-operation and Peace
Contemporary decision-makers in both the East and the West are faced with a continuing dilemma: while the necessity of avoiding nuclear war impels them towards a broad strategy of mutual co-operation, the need...
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Conclusion: Reconstructed Idealism and Revised Realism
This study has attempted to demonstrate empirically that in certain limited contexts in the interwar years, the pursuit of co-operative treaty-making strategies by nation-states significantly reduced the proba...
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The Idealist Tradition and its Modern Variants
Idealism or, to its critics, ‘utopianism’ — the view that international law can and should be constructively employed to reduce nations’ ability and willingness to resort to violence — was a pervasive influenc...
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Treaty-making, War and Peace: Preliminary Empirical Findings
In an attempt to assess the extent to which international lawmaking may have played a latent political role in the interwar period, the broad operational hypothesis of this chapter is that, ceteris paribus, more ...
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A Case-study: Anglo-Turkish Relations during the Interwar Years
In the preceding chapters it has been suggested that in certain limited but specifiable circumstances, the pursuit of strategies of co-operation — operationalised in this context as participation in the bilate...
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Background to the Empirical Analysis: The Data and the Data Analysis Strategy
In Chapter 1 an attempt was made to identify a number of mechanisms through which international law and lawmaking might contribute to the maintenance of international peace. Chapters 3 and 4 offer an empirical...
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Treaty-making, War and Peace: Further Empirical Evidence
The results which were reported in the previous chapter demonstrated a complex but consistent pattern of correlation between international lawmaking and war-avoidance that is clearly supportive of what has for...
