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War and the Fate of Regimes: A Comparative Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita ,
Randolph M. Siverson  and
Gary Woller
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Affiliation:
Hoover Institution and University of Rochester
Randolph M. Siverson
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
Gary Woller
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University
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Abstract

Governments are likely to be held accountable for the success or failure of their foreign policies. Consequently, we claim that international wars can, under specified conditions, have domestically instigated consequences for violent regime change in the political systems of the participants. Drawing upon all international war participation between 1816 and 1975, we seek to answer the question, Do wars lead to violent changes of regime and if so, under what conditions? Three hypotheses set out the expected associations of a nation's initiator or target role in a war, the war outcome, and the costs of the war with domestically instigated violent changes of regime. Direct relationships are found for all three and hold even against possible threats to their validity and robustness. The results suggest that domestic politics play a larger role in national security policy than is generally believed by realist or neorealist theorists.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 638 - 646
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1992

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