Presidential Uses of Force during the Cold War: Aggregation, Truncation, and Temporal Dynamics

Abstract

A previous version of this article was presented at the 1999 North American Meeting of the Peace Science Society International, Ann Arbor, MI. A lengthier version of the article is available at http://www.fsu.edu/~polisci/wksp_papers/workingpapers/wp2000.htm. We would like to thank Matt Baum, Patrick Brandt, Ashley Leeds, and several anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. A replication data set will be deposited with the ICPSR’s Publication-Related Archive (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu).