Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process*
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Political Studies
- Vol. 4 (2) , 81-108
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9477.1981.tb00416.x
Abstract
In this paper one of the classical questions in the study of politics will be pursued, viz., whether foreign policy decisions are made in a less democratic manner than policies pertaining to the domestic sphere of fully industrialized and democratic states; and if so, how to account for such a condition. These two queries will be examined in terms of three topics, each of which is explored in a preliminary fashion: (a) the characteristic dimensions of the democratic process; (b) the problems of policy comparability across sectorial boundaries; and (c) possible explanatory hypotheses regarding sectorial variances in the democratic process.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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