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Hawkish Partisans: How Political Parties Shape Nationalist Conflicts in China and Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2020

Trevor Incerti Open the ORCID record for Trevor Incerti [Opens in a new window] ,
Daniel Mattingly Open the ORCID record for Daniel Mattingly [Opens in a new window] ,
Frances Rosenbluth ,
Seiki Tanaka Open the ORCID record for Seiki Tanaka [Opens in a new window]  and
Jiahua Yue Open the ORCID record for Jiahua Yue [Opens in a new window]
Trevor Incerti
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Daniel Mattingly
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Frances Rosenbluth*
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Seiki Tanaka
Affiliation:
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Jiahua Yue
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: frances.rosenbluth@yale.edu
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Abstract

It is well known that regime types affect international conflicts. This article explores political parties as a mechanism through which they do so. Political parties operate in fundamentally different ways in democracies vs. non-democracies, which has consequences for foreign policy. Core supporters of a party in a democracy, if they are hawkish, may be more successful at demanding hawkish behavior from their party representatives than would be their counterparts in an autocracy. The study draws on evidence from paired experiments in democratic Japan and non-democratic China to show that supporters of the ruling party in Japan punish their leaders for discouraging nationalist protests, while ruling party insiders in China are less likely to do so. Under some circumstances, then, non-democratic regimes may be better able to rein in peace-threatening displays of nationalism.

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nationalismconflictpartiesrepressionsurvey experimentChinaJapan
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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , October 2021 , pp. 1494 - 1515
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