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Peaceful legislatures? Parliaments and military interventions after the Cold War: Insights from Germany and Italy

1/21/2020

 

My latest paper on parliamentary war powers is online. The paper (co-authored with Francesco N. Moro) will be published at "International Relations" and it is titled: "Peaceful legislatures? Parliaments and military interventions after the Cold War: Insights from Germany and Italy". Here below the abstract.
The article contributes to the growing debate on parliamentary war powers and shows how parliaments matter in shaping both force deployment and force employment. Through original analysis of the Italian and German decision-making on military interventions after the Cold War, the article illustrates how formal and informal constraints shape the opportunity structures faced by executives that are willing to undertake military interventions. Revisiting, and building on, the great deal of research recently emerged on institutional constraints to the use of force, the article details the types of costs – namely, transaction and audience costs – linked to involvement of legislatives in the decision-making and provides empirical support for theories based on parliamentary war powers, adding new dimensions of analysis.

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    Fabrizio Coticchia is Professor of Political Science at the University of Genoa.


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