Date of Award
Spring 5-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
John Duffield
Second Advisor
Michael Fix
Third Advisor
Aaron Rapport
Abstract
This thesis examines the impact of democracy on alliance abrogation. It serves as an extension of the current literature that examines democratic commitments and merges that with alliance studies. The data used consists of alliances from 1816-1991 and has been composed using EUGene from Leeds and Anac (2005), Correlates of War, and Polity IV. Using a standard probit model, this thesis examines the relationship between democracy and alliance commitments in a systematic approach and finds little evidence to support existing theoretical justifications on how democracies behave in an alliance.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/3575346
Recommended Citation
Harrison, Eric, "Are Democracies More or Less Likely to Abrogate Alliances?." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/3575346