Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies - 9780367444631

Taylor & Francis

Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal DemocraciesCleavages, Ideas, Competition\nAuthor(s): Angelos Chryssogelos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367444631, 978-0367444631\nSynopsis\nHow do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies. \n\nThe book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party systems as the context in which parties ideologies receive precise content and their preferences are formed. The central claim is that foreign policy change arises from within transformed discursive contexts of party competition, when a new language of politics that constitutes anew parties self-understanding of what they stand for and compete over emerges in a party system. By comparing cases of contested foreign policy change, the book shows how such transformations in par.