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Foyle, Douglas. "Managing War and Election Campaigns: The Vietnam War and Election Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64539_index.html>

Foyle, D. , 2003-08-27 "Managing War and Election Campaigns: The Vietnam War and Election Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64539_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Although elections are common to all democracies, we still have a surprisingly murky understanding about how foreign policy decisions that occur in the context of an electoral campaign might be shaped and altered by them. Contradictory arguments abound. While some argue that leaders will use foreign policy to domestic advantage or otherwise alter their foreign policy choices because of electoral calculations, others suggest that politics effectively stops at the water’s edge and elections play no role in foreign policy calculations. In this paper, I intensively examine how Richard Nixon considered the 1972 election in his response to the North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam. These decisions are compared with a range of decisions made by Lyndon Johnson during the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. By focusing on critical decisions that occurred in the midst of presidential election campaigns in 1964, 1968, and 1972 and employing newly released archival documents, this paper evaluates the extent to which these presidents, under a range of political and international conditions, considered their electoral prospects as they confronted several foreign policy choices.

The President as Politician and Policy Maker: Foreign Policy, Crises, and Election Campaigns

Electoral Reform After the Election of 2000: A Study of the Impact of Politics on Policy Decisions and How Those Decisions Impact the Responsiveness of the Electoral System