105 research outputs found
Replication Data for: Patterns of Political Ideology and Security Policy
No full textRecent studies on political ideology suggest the existence of partisan divides on matters of foreign and security policy – challenging the notion that “politics stops at the water’s edge”. However, when taken as a whole, extant work provides decidedly mixed evidence of party-political differences outside domestic politics. This article first conducts a systematic empirical analysis of the relationship between parties’ left-right positions and their general attitude towards peace and security missions, which suggests that right-leaning parties tend to be more supportive of military operations. Yet, the results also show that the empirical pattern is curvilinear: centrist and center-right parties witness the highest level of support for military missions, while parties on both ends of the political spectrum show substantially less support. The second part of our analysis examines whether the stronger support of rightist parties for peace and security missions translates into a greater inclination of right-wing governments to actually deploy forces to military operations. Strikingly, our results suggest that leftist governments were actually more inclined to participate in operations than their right-leaning counterparts. The greater willingness of left-wing executives to deploy military forces is the result of their greater inclination to participate in operations with inclusive goals
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_00491241211036153 - Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-smr-10.1177_00491241211036153 for Relevant, Irrelevant, or Ambiguous? Toward a New Interpretation of QCA’s Solution Types by Tim Haesebrouck in Sociological Methods & Research</p
Belgian foreign policy : in foro interno, inferno?
No full textThis chapter reviews the constants and changes in Belgian foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. This chapter identifies six particular instances of change across different policy issues of foreign policy and zooms in on the dynamics that contributed to these changes, at the international, domestic and individual levels. It is clear that Belgium’s consecutive institutional reforms have heavily affected the nature of its policymaking, and even the content of its policies. As a permanent work in progress, the Belgian administrations constantly had to adjust to new realities—not only externally but also internally. When we look at specific policies, we observe major changes in almost every aspect of Belgium’s foreign policy; for example, the emergence and disappearance of ethical diplomacy between 1999 and 2004, a major restructuring of Belgium’s defense policy after the end of the Cold War and drastic changes in both the means and ends of Belgian Development Cooperation. The chapter also details an example of an aborted change in development cooperation where the regionalization of this competency was prevented
The limits of the principle of charity : Why Haesebrouck is wrong after all
No full textIn our article entitled ‘The Responsibility to Protect – An incoherent Doctrine?’ we claimed that R2P in the version proposed by the ICISS is incoherent. We argued that the ICISS-report used the criteria of right intention, proportionality and legitimate authority to determine when a humanitarian intervention is obligatory and we continued by arguing that this cannot be done in a coherent manner. In his reply to our article Tim Haesebrouck refutes our argument by claiming that the ICISS differentiates between criteria governing when a humanitarian intervention is obligatory from criteria governing what is permitted in an obligatory intervention and thereby avoid being incoherent. In this closing reply we show through an analysis of the report that ICISS does indeed differentiate between the criteria, but not in order to determine what is obligatory or permitted. Hence, our conclusion regarding the incoherence is not refuted by Haesebrouck
Algorithmic bias in social research: A meta-analysis
No full textReplication material for Thiem, A., L. Mkrtchyan, T. Haesebrouck and D. Sanchez. 2020. "Algorithmic bias in social research: A meta-analysis." PLoS ONE 15(6): e0233625. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.023362
The added value of multi-value qualitative comparative analysis
No full textThis article aims to qualify the skeptical view of many leading methodologists on multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA). More specifically, it draws attention to a distinctive strength of this QCA-variant. In contrast to the other QCA-variants, mvQCA is capable of straightforwardly capturing the specific causal role of every category of a multi-value condition. This provides it with an important advantage over both crisp set (csQCA) and fuzzy set QCA (fsQCA). fsQCA is not capable of capturing the causal effect of an intermediate category if, depending on the context, it can have a different impact than the full presence of the corresponding condition. csQCA, in turn, tends to attribute a causal role to the absence of condition values, which in the case of multi-value conditions often encompass very different cases. The article first discusses the comparative advantage of mvQCA with a constructed data set, after which it reanalyzes two published studies to demonstrate these advantages with empirical data. (author's abstract)In diesem Beitrag beschäftige ich mich mit der Skepsis vieler Methodolog/innen gegenüber der Multi-Value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA), bzw. genauer: ich versuche einer wichtigen Stärke dieser QCA-Variante Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. Anders als andere QCA-Varianten kann die mvQCA die spezifische kausale Rolle jeder Kategorie in einem mv-Setting einfangen, ein entscheidender Vorteil, verglichen mit Crisp-Set (csQCA) und Fuzzy-Set QCA (fsQCA). In diesem Beitrag diskutiere ich zunächst die Vorteile der mvQCA an einem konstruierten Datenset und reanalysiere danach zwei veröffentlicht vorliegende Studien, um diese Vorteile auch an empirischen Daten zu demonstrieren. (Autorenreferat
German Foreign Policy
No full textThis chapter takes stock of Germany’s foreign policy since unification. Starting with the country’s general foreign policy orientation toward multilateralism, European integration, and transatlanticism, the chapter reviews developments in defense and security policy, development policy, bilateral relations, as well as EU, multilateral, and niche diplomacy. The chapter concludes that, across the areas considered, Germany’s foreign policy since 1990 has been characterized by continuity rather than change. This is not to imply that there has been no change, but the changes that occurred have been incremental adjustments rather than abrupt policy turns. This also mirrors earlier analyses of German foreign policy since unification. However, like other Western democracies, Germany’s domestic politics are undergoing changes—most of all in the party system, which has shifted from a system of “two-and-a-half” parties until the 1990s, to a Bundestag that currently holds six parties. This new party system means that government formation has become more complicated, as witnessed after the general elections of 2017, where the process to establish a new government took an unprecedented 171 days. Ultimately, these changes in the party system may also affect the conduct of foreign policy, though it is too early to make predictions about potential future changes
EU member state participation in military operations : a configurational comparative analysis
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