The Decision Making Process to Use Military Force Abroad Under Different Types of Political Regimes

Student: Maltsev Artem

Educational Programme: Applied Politics (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2019

This study suggest a theoretical model of Consolidated Parliamentary Peace based on comparative analysis of formal decision-making procedures in various democratic states, building on the basis of Democratic Peace Theory. The research design involves the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA fuzzy sets model) on several data arrays to study the effects of parliamentary Ex Ante veto powers on the democratic involvment in various militarized operations from 1995 to 2015. This work uses the original database of estimates of the number of military personnel abroad based on aggregated information from 20 IISS The Military Balance Yearbooks, previously not used in empirical studies in the context of the Democratic Peace Theory

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