POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Neoliberalism
8 May 2017
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Primacy of societal actors, not necessarily state interests. State is not an actor but rather a biased representative institution subject to capture and recapture by coalitions of domestic social actors. Taken for granted by realists and liberal institutionalists. Interest groups all try to sway policies, and each one has different amounts of power. These push for certain preferences and sway the national interest. Related to war and peoples" tendency to become more supportive of a government when it undergoes crises like war. The falkland islands conflict boosted support for thatcher"s government. Diversionary incentive temptation to spark an international crisis to rally public support at home to overcome a domestic legitimacy issue. Going to war to exploit the rally effect, gambling for resurrection. Rally effect is a political benefit added to one side"s payoff. Political benefit factored in like any other gain from war. Thus the political benefits are subtracted from the cost of war.
