Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Porche, Schuyler Richard
Author's Email Address	sporche@tigers.lsu.edu, schuyler_porche@yahoo.com
URN	etd-04022009-110021
Title	Leadership Survival and the Process of Economic Integration
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department	Political Science
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Mohammed Rodwan Abouharb Committee Chair Cameron G. Thies Committee Member James C. Garand Committee Member William A. Clark Committee Member Wonik Kim Committee Member Areendam Chanda Dean's Representative
Keywords	international relations international political economy
Date of Defense	2009-03-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The central contribution of this dissertation to political science is explaining the role of leadership survival theory in shaping the political process of initiation, broadening, deepening, and failure of economic integration agreements by nation states. The empirical research involves the creation of a dataset recording changes in economic integration for the period 1950-1999 and utilizing advanced quantitative methods to study the process. Most existing research focuses on the initiation of trade agreements. I demonstrate that the process of economic integration agreements among polities is shaped by iterated political interaction at both the domestic and international levels. The critical test in this research is the leadership survival prediction that as the number of people needed to keep a leader in office increases the incentives for pursuing public policies changes.
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