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Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989

By Rainer Thiel (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year
2010
ISBN
978-3-531-17769-4, 978-3-531-92606-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-531-92606-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1803483 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
318\310
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-22 00:23:52
Political Science; Political Science

Description

Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion develops a game theoretic model that explains how an external actor influences the strategic interaction between an authoritarian regime and a democratic opposition. In a multiple arena approach, the confrontation between regime and opposition on the domestic level is nested inside a game on the international level, at which the regime is simultaneously entangled with a democracy promotion actor. As a case study, the book formally reconstructs how United States democracy assistance influenced the Polish liberalization process between 1980 and 1989. The process tracing of its causal mechanisms is extensive and builds on data previously not recorded. With regard to Cold War history, new light is brought into U.S. American policies and strategies behind the Iron Curtain.

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