Politicization, Party Politics and Military Missions: Deployment Votes in France, Germany, Spain,
and the United Kingdom

Wolfgang Wagner; Anna Herranz-Surralles; Juliet Kaarbo; Falk Ostermann

Politicization, Party Politics and Military Missions: Deployment Votes in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom

Wolfgang Wagner, Anna Herranz-Surralles, Juliet Kaarbo, Falk Ostermann

School of Social and Political Science

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This paper examines whether decisions at the core of international security politics, namely decisions on the deployment of military forces, have undergone a process of politicization. It is guided by two interrelated questions, namely a) whether deployment decisions have been politically contested and b) what kind of party-political cleavage has emerged in this process. We examine data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) as well as data that we gathered on parliamentary votes on deployment decisions in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. We find that military deployments have indeed been contested amongst political parties. Further and notwithstanding country-specific peculiarities, we find that the partypolitical cleavage is by and large captured by the left/right-axis.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Berlin, Germany
Publisher	WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Volume	SP IV 2017–101
Publication status	Published - Jan 2017

Publication series

Name	International Politics and Law, Global Governance
Publisher	WZB Berlin Social Science Center [Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung]

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

party-political contestation
parliamentary vote
foreign policy

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