Abstract
Abstract Legislatures and political parties are key elements of democratic politics. In the wake of the Democratic Peace debate, legislatures in particular have received ample attention from International Relations scholars. Research in Foreign Policy Analysis, however, has qualified notions of them as effective institutional constraints on bellicose executives. Drawing on research in Comparative Politics, this research has instead pointed to the close cooperation between executives and majorities in the legislature as well as to the importance of political parties in politicizing external relations. Political parties differ systematically over free trade, development aid, and the appropriateness of using armed force abroad. While the left-/right-dimension captures these differences best, a socio-cultural new politics dimension is likely to become more important in the future.
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