When will the domestic audience be responsive to publicly made threats in international disputes by their leaders? Theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that audience
costs can be strategically invoked by leaders to credibly signal their intentions in conflict bargaining situations. However, an emerging literature points out that audience costs depend
on individual-level behavioral processes within the domestic political environment. This dissertation further explores the factors that influence whether voters mobilize audience costs
when leaders renege on public threats specifically, in regards to two distinct issues. One, when are citizens attentive to foreign disputes that their leaders publicly signal in, and what
effect does this have on audience cost mobilization? Two, will citizens automatically punish leaders for reneging in foreign disputes they are attentive to, or will the decision to punish
be subject to normal candidate evaluation processes. Using experimental evidence I find strong empirical support for both factors attenuating audience cost generation in foreign crisis
disputes. Finally, unlike previous work on audience costs, this dissertation demonstrates that factors outside of a leader's direct control influences the degree to which they can credibly
signal through publicly made threats. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Political Science in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Philosophy. / Fall Semester 2015. / October 28, 2015. / Audience Costs, Bargaining, Domestic Politics, Experiments, Voting / Includes bibliographical references. / Sean Ehrlich, Professor Directing Dissertation; Jonathan Grant, University Representative; Mark Souva, Committee Member; Brad Gomez, Committee
Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_291255 |
| Contributors | Abitbol, Aldo David (authoraut), Ehrlich, Sean D. (professor directing dissertation), Grant, Jonathan A., 1963- (university representative), Souva, Mark A. (committee member), Gomez, Brad T., 1970- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college), Department of Political Science (degree granting department) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource (151 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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