Replication data for: Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict (doi:10.7910/DVN/IEH0V2)

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Replication data for: Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict

doi:10.7910/DVN/IEH0V2

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2008-12-16

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Dan Reiter; Erik R. Tillman, 2008, "Replication data for: Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IEH0V2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:7tWy78svzzvCEWtaBstYCQ== [fileUNF]

Replication data for: Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict

doi:10.7910/DVN/IEH0V2

Dan Reiter (Emory University)

Erik R. Tillman (Emory University)

2002

Harvard Dataverse

Dan Reiter

2007

2007

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IEH0V2

How do domestic political institutions affect the propensity to initiate international conflict? We improve theoretical understanding of and empirical knowledge on this question. We describe three major types of democratic institutional characteristics that have been hypothesized to increase the constraints on conflict initiation: public electoral participation, intra-legislative factors, and a stronger legislature in relation to the executive. Using a Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) model to analyze 37 democracies in the period 1919-1992, we find that higher political participation levels decrease the likelihood of initiating an international dispute and that neither the number of parties nor the nature of the ruling coalition affects the likelihood of initiating a dispute. The evidence is mixed on whether variation in executive-legislative constraints makes initiation more likely. These findings highlight the significance of public consent for the formation of democratic foreign policy.

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Dan Reiter and Erik R. Tillman, "Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict," Journal of Politics 64 (August 2002): 810-826. DOI: 10.1111/0022-3816.00147. <a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-3816.00147" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

Dan Reiter and Erik R. Tillman, "Public, Legislative, and Executive Constraints on the Democratic Initiation of Conflict," Journal of Politics 64 (August 2002): 810-826. DOI: 10.1111/0022-3816.00147. <a href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-3816.00147" target= "_new"> article available here </a>

• Number of cases: 3766

• No. of variables per record: 20

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data file for this study

• autbor
• bicam - Is legis. bicameral?
• treatrat - Legislative powers regarding tr
• majpow - =1 if COW major power
• ccode
• year
• polity
• presdum - Is system presidential?
• parldum - Is system parliamentary?
• prempres - Is system premier-presidential?
• assind - Is system assembly-independent?
• xconst
• vanpart
• midindm - =1 if state initiated any MID
• eff_ptie - eff#pties
• mnin45dm
• majdum
• coaldum
• ppdum - =2 if presdum=1; =1 if assind/prempres=1; =0 if parldum=1
• semipres - =1 if prempres/assind=1

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