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Still Pretty Prudent: Post-Cold War American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force

The Journal of conflict resolution, 1998-08, Vol.42 (4), p.395-417 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 1998 Sage Publications, Inc. ;ISSN: 0022-0027 ;EISSN: 1552-8766 ;DOI: 10.1177/0022002798042004001

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Title:
Still Pretty Prudent: Post-Cold War American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force
Author: Jentleson, Bruce W. ; Britton, Rebecca L.
Subjects: Armed forces ; BOSNIA ; Cold wars ; Conflict resolution ; DEFENSE POLICY AND SPENDING ; Force ; Foreign Policy ; HAITI ; INTERVENTIONISM (MILITARY, POLITICAL, AND/OR ECONOMIC INTERFERENCE BY A SOVEREIGN STATE OR AN INTERNATIONAL AGENCY IN THE AFFAIRS OF ANOTHER SOVEREIGN STATE) ; Military ; Modeling ; Multilateralism ; Polls ; Public Opinion ; RWANDA ; SOMALIA ; Statistical significance ; Unilateralism ; United States ; UNITED STATES, 1945 TO PRESENT ; War
Is Part Of: The Journal of conflict resolution, 1998-08, Vol.42 (4), p.395-417
Description: Extending and further testing the theory advanced by Bruce Jentleson with post-cold war data, variations in U.S. public support for the use of military force are shown to be best explained by the principal policy objective for which military force is being used, with a third category of "humanitarian intervention" added to the previous two of "foreign policy restraint" and "internal political change." The principal policy objective theory is shown through a series of tests, including regression and logistic analyses, to offer the most powerful and parsimonious explanation, both directly superseding and indirectly subsuming such other alternative variables as interests, elite cues, risk, and multilateralism. These findings support the broader theoretical view of a rational public purposive and not purely reactive in its opinion formulation and have important implications for the basic dispositions of the types of military interventions the American public will and will not support in the post-cold war era.
Publisher: 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320: Sage Publications
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0022-0027
EISSN: 1552-8766
DOI: 10.1177/0022002798042004001
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
Alma/SFX Local Collection
ProQuest Central

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Still Pretty Prudent: Post-Cold War American Public Opinion on the Use of Military Force

Copyright 1998 Sage Publications, Inc. ;ISSN: 0022-0027 ;EISSN: 1552-8766 ;DOI: 10.1177/0022002798042004001

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