Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Huxsoll, David Baker
URN	etd-0129103-074005
Title	Regimes, Institutions and Foreign Policy Change
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department	Political Science
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Eugene Wittkopf Committee Chair James Garand Committee Member Mark Schafer Committee Member William Clark Committee Member R. Carter Hill Dean's Representative
Keywords	foreign policy change democracy democracies non-democracy authoritarian institution institutions regime regimes
Date of Defense	2005-01-21
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This dissertation examines the effects that different political regime types and institutional arrangements have on the amount of foreign policy change occurring a state. Scholars in International Relations studying the democratic peace have identified a relationship between characteristics of democracy and non-democracy and the behavior of states. Scholars in Comparative Politics have noted that certain institutions more easily facilitate policy change. This dissertation synthesizes these perspectives and develops and tests a number of hypotheses relating regime type, institutional arrangement, and party system to the amount of foreign policy change a state undertakes. Employing a pooled, cross-sectional time series design, the findings show that democracies are more stable in their foreign policies than are non-democracies, and that states with different political institutions and party systems differ with regard to the amount of foreign policy change they undertake.
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