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2z10wq0038m	Richard William Maass	To Conquer Land or People: Democracy and the Domestic Political Costs of Annexationism	2013		.txt	text/plain	268	10	26	In short, I argue that state leaders consider domestic political consequences in addition to material benefits and military costs when determining the desirability of annexationism, and reject opportunities to annex territory where they fear it impairing their domestic influence (even where annexation would be materially profitable). After laying out my theory of annexation?s domestic political consequences, I test its causal logic against the conventional wisdom by process-tracing the decision making of US leaders facing major opportunities to expand into Canada and Mexico between 1774 and 1871.	cache/2z10wq0038m.txt	txt/2z10wq0038m.txt