TY  - BOOK
AU  - Downs,George
AU  - Rocke,David M.
TI  - Optimal Imperfection?: Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions in International Relations 
SN  - 9780691225203
U1  - 327.1/01 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abreu, Dilip
KW  - Adventurism
KW  - Asymmetric information
KW  - Balance of Power
KW  - Bargaining costs
KW  - Bayesian learning
KW  - Bilateral agreement
KW  - Brinkmanship
KW  - Capability
KW  - Capacity change
KW  - Certainty effect
KW  - Chief executive
KW  - Compensation
KW  - Compliance
KW  - Contraction
KW  - Coordination regime
KW  - Cournot equilibrium
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Deterrence
KW  - Diversionary war
KW  - Domino effect
KW  - Election sanction
KW  - Enforcement
KW  - Environmental regulation
KW  - Equilibrium refinements
KW  - Fearon, Jame
KW  - Fundamental attribution bias
KW  - Gambling for resurrection
KW  - Gibbons, Robert
KW  - Glorious Revolution
KW  - Haas, Peter
KW  - Hegemonic stability game
KW  - Humes, Brian
KW  - Imperfect information
KW  - Information uncertainty
KW  - Institutionalist tradition
KW  - Interest groups
KW  - Jervis, Robert
KW  - Kahneman, Daniel
KW  - Kreps, David
KW  - Lafay, Jean-Dominique
KW  - Loss aversion
KW  - Median voter
KW  - Multilateral agreement
KW  - Multilateral institution
KW  - Multipolarity
KW  - New economics of organization
KW  - Nontariff barriers
KW  - Osborne, Martin
KW  - Pareto-suboptimal solutions
KW  - Perfect information
KW  - Preventive wars
KW  - Protectionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Chapter 1 The Impact of Uncertainty --; Chapter 2 Game Theory and Uncertainty --; Chapter 3 Gambling for Resurrection --; Chapter 4 Optimal Imperfection: GATT and the Uncertainty of Interest Group Demands --; Chapter 5 Willing but Maybe Not Able: The Impact of Uncertainty about State Capacity --; Chapter 6 Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "Domestic politics matters" has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the past decade, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? In this book, George Downs and David Rocke argue that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties. This impact is due not so much to the errors in judgment these uncertainties can cause as to the strategic and institutional consequences of knowing that such errors are possible. The heart of the book is its formal analysis of how three kinds of domestic uncertainty have shaped international relations through their influence on three very different institutions. One chapter deals with the decision rules that citizens create to cope with uncertainty about the quality of their representation, and how these can lead to the paradoxical "gambling for resurrection" effect. Another chapter describes the extent to which the weak enforcement provisions of GATT can be understood as a mechanism to cope with uncertain but intermittent interest group demands for protection. The third chapter looks at the impact of uncertainty on the creation, survival, and membership of multilateral regulatory institutions, such as the Montreal Protocol and EU, when some states question the capacity of other states to meet their treaty obligations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225203?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691225203
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