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Citation |
Boussios EG, Cole S. J. Appl. Secur. Res. 2010; 5(2): 208. |
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(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group) |
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Abstract |
This article presents the results of an analysis of public attitudes toward war for the contemporary Iraq War. In total, 23 surveys conducted by the Gallup Organization starting March 2003 and ending in February 2006 were analyzed. This article examines the social characteristics of those people who are more or less likely to oppose war. The research reported here was arrived at answering the following question: Are there some groups (e.g., women) who are more likely to oppose the war? Using binary logistic regression methods, this research analyzes why some groups are more likely than others to oppose or support war. This cross-sectional analysis studies groups by age, education, gender, race, religion, party identification, and political ideology, in their general likelihood to oppose war. Several traditional expectations on war attitudes, including a “gender gap” and an “education gap,” were unfounded. In some cases where correlations were found, the relationship could be explained predominately by the correlation of demographic characteristics with partisanship. This study has demonstrated just how much more powerful party identification has become in the United States. This trend analysis is the closest look at U.S. public opinion on war since the groundbreaking and prize-winning work of John Mueller (1973). |