Hanna Bäck
Professor
War, Performance, and the Survival of Foreign Ministers
Författare
Summary, in English
Why do some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others? Are they punished when the country loses a war? Several scholars have focused on the tenure of leaders as an important predictor of foreign policy outcomes, such as war onset, creating an interest in leadership survival. We here shift the focus to the survival of other important politicians in cabinet-foreign ministers, hypothesizing that their tenure depends on their performance in office. For example, we expect that foreign ministers stay longer in office when the country experiences an armed conflict resulting in a win or in a compromise agreement. We evaluate and find support for several of our hypotheses using an original historical dataset, which comprises all foreign ministers of the world's thirteen great powers from the early modern period to the present, covering about 1,100 foreign minister-terms of office.
Avdelning/ar
- Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2021
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Foreign Policy Analysis
Volym
17
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
International Studies Association
Ämne
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1743-8586