Gelpi / Feaver / Reifler Paying the Human Costs of War

American Public Opinion and Casualties in Military Conflicts
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3009-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelpi, Christopher

Feaver, Peter D.

Reifler, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii

LIST OF TABLES ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

CHAPTER ONE: Theories of American Attitudes toward Warfare 1

CHAPTER TWO: America's Tolerance for Casualties, 1950-2006 23

CHAPTER THREE: Measuring Individual Attitudes toward Military Conflict 67

CHAPTER FOUR: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes toward Military Conflict 98

CHAPTER FIVE: Individual Attitudes toward the Iraq War, 2003-2004 125

CHAPTER SIX: Iraq the Vote: War and the Presidential Election of 2004 167

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Sources and Meaning of Success in Iraq 188

CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion 236

BIBLIOGRAPHY 265

INDEX 283

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Gelpi is professor of political science at Duke University. He is the author of The Power of Legitimacy (Princeton). Peter D. Feaver is the Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. From 2005 to 2007, he served as a special advisor on the National Security Council. Feaver and Gelpi are the coauthors of Choosing Your Battles (Princeton). Jason Reifler is assistant professor of political science at Georgia State University.