Punishing the prince
Subtitle: a theory of interstate relations, political institutions, and leader change
By: Fiona McGillivray, Alastair Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Alastair, 1967-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780691136066; 9780691136073
Subjects: Heads of state -- Term of office; Political leadership; Debts, Public; Political corruption
Description: Examines how the targeting of punishments against individual leaders, rather than the nation they represent, shapes the dynamics between interstate relations and leadership turnover and the moderating influence of domestic political institutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: We have no quarrel with the people; title: A theory of leader specific punishments; title: Political institutions, policy variability, and the survival of leaders; title: Leader specific strategies in human subject experiments; title: International trade, institutions, and leader change; title: Putting the sovereign back into sovereign debt; title: Conflictual interactions.