POLI 244 Lecture 29: Two-level games
21 Feb 2016
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There are 2 forces shaping outcomes simultaneously in international negotiations. 1: domestic level pressures on decision makers. International and domestic factors clearly both matter: but they also have an impact on each other. International politics don"t always shape the domestic level. Domestic politics don"t always shape foreign policy decision making: rather, there is an interplay between both levels that produces and outcome. Is it the state, it or the state, they? . The head of state and advisors rarely all agree. If you bring in the legislative branch or the opposition, this becomes even more true. States are not unitary actors, then this is true for democracies and non-democracies. At the domestic level: interest groups pressure governments, and governments try to build coalitions among interest groups. At the international level: governments try to satisfy domestic pressures and minimize foreign threats and pressures. A government must simultaneously do both in order to be successful two tablets .
