Untying Hands: De-escalation, Reputation, and Dynamic Audience Costs
Untying Hands: De-escalation, Reputation, and Dynamic Audience Costs
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解放双手:降级、声誉和动态观众成本
DOI:
10.1017/s0007123421000466
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Kai Quek
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作者:
Kai Quek
Abstract Two states in a dispute refuse to back down. One ties its own hands to strengthen its stand and gain advantage; the other tries to untie the tied hands to preempt disadvantage. Tying hands is a well-studied strategy, but it tells only part of the story, and the response strategy of untying hands remains unexplored. Can a state untie the tied hands of its opponent to give freedom back to its opponent—the freedom to concede? I identify three strategies of untying hands: counterthreat, reassurance, and normative framing. I show experimentally that these strategies can reduce the public costs of backing down and the perceived reputational damage from backing down. Tied hands and audience costs are not static and immutable, but dynamic and malleable by the other side.
影响因子:
2.6
作者:
Davies G
通讯作者:
Davies G
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
Johns R
通讯作者:
Johns R