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Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making : A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Choices

The double weighting request reflects the unusual level of effort that underpinned the research. The research involved: (1) a quantitative component, comparing 21 countries over 24 years. Although the events data set (for the dependent variable) was pre-existing, the research created the matching independent variable data for government type and cabinet characteristics for all 21 countries over 24 years, for more than 26,0000 events. (2) A qualitative case study component involved data collection on decision-making processes for 12 cases across 3 countries. Both components involved intense data mining from many source materials. The research was carried out over 10 years.