Democracies and Foreign Policy: Public Participation in the United States and the NetherlandsUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1995 - 173 pages In Democracies and Foreign Policy, however, Bernard Cohen offers the first detailed comparison of two Western democracies--the United States and the Netherlands--and their patterns of public participation in foreign policy. To assess the influence of citizens on the foreign policies of each nation, he examines the institutions that both shape and express public opinion--national legislative bodies, media of communication, organized interest groups--and searches for the roots of these institutions in the national political systems. |
Contents
The Political Systems of the Netherlands and | 3 |
Some General Considerations | 52 |
Political Parties and Legislatures | 71 |
The Media of Mass Communication | 100 |
Interest Groups | 128 |
Conclusion | 153 |