@article{ref1,
title="Does accountability matter? How electoral systems affect conflict initiation",
journal="Conflict, security and development",
year="2016",
author="Hunter, Lance Y. and Robbins, Joseph W.",
volume="16",
number="3",
pages="219-243",
abstract="Recent work on conflict suggests that electoral systems impact foreign policy-making in important ways; however, the discipline has reached different conclusions regarding how different types of electoral systems affect conflict initiation. In this study we contend that legislators are more accountable individually in candidate-centred electoral systems which impacts a state's decision to initiate interstate conflict. We test our argument using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of 54 democracies from 1975 to 2001. The results provide strong support for the hypothesis that candidate-centred electoral systems result in less conflict initiation than party-centric systems due to higher levels of individual accountability for legislative members.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1467-8802",
doi="10.1080/14678802.2016.1179450",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2016.1179450"
}