caa a22 4500 388051116 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1162/002081898753162839 doi S0020818398440372 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1162/002081898753162839 Gowa Joanne Politics at the Water's Edge: Parties, Voters, and the Use of Force Abroad [Elektronische Daten] [Joanne Gowa] This article examines the effects of party politics and presidential election cycles on U.S. recourse to force abroad. I analyze a game-theoretic model to generate predictions about these effects. In the unique time-consistent equilibrium outcome of the one-shot game, policy varies across political parties. In a subgame-perfect equilibrium outcome of the repeated game, the use of force is invariant to the partisan composition of government. In neither case does policy respond to the electoral cycle. An empirical analysis supports the predictions of the repeated game. Between 1870 and 1992, U.S. recourse to force abroad responds neither to partisan politics nor to the domestic political calendar. It responds only to changes in U.S. power status and to the advent of general wars. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1998 International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/2(1998), 307-324 0020-8183 52:2<307 1998 52 INO https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898753162839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898753162839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gowa Joanne NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/2(1998), 307-324 0020-8183 52:2<307 1998 52 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge