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Reputations for Resolve and Higher-Order Beliefs in Crisis Bargaining

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  • Allan Dafoe
  • Remco Zwetsloot
  • Matthew Cebul

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Reputations for resolve are said to be one of the few things worth fighting for, yet they remain inadequately understood. Discussions of reputation focus almost exclusively on first-order belief change— A stands firm, B updates its beliefs about A ’s resolve. Such first-order reputational effects are important, but they are not the whole story. Higher-order beliefs—what A believes about B ’s beliefs, and so on—matter a great deal as well. When A comes to believe that B is more resolved, this may decrease A ’s resolve, and this in turn may increase B ’s resolve, and so on. In other words, resolve is interdependent . We offer a framework for estimating higher-order effects, and find evidence of such reasoning in a survey experiment on quasi-elites. Our findings indicate both that states and leaders can develop potent reputations for resolve, and that higher-order beliefs are often responsible for a large proportion of these effects (40 percent to 70 percent in our experimental setting). We conclude by complementing the survey with qualitative evidence and laying the groundwork for future research.

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  • Allan Dafoe & Remco Zwetsloot & Matthew Cebul, 2021. "Reputations for Resolve and Higher-Order Beliefs in Crisis Bargaining," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 65(7-8), pages 1378-1404, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:65:y:2021:i:7-8:p:1378-1404
    DOI: 10.1177/0022002721995549
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