Threat Perception and American Support for Torture
| Autor: | Sarah E. Croco, Courtenay R. Conrad, Will H. Moore, Brad T. Gomez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Government Sociology and Political Science Human rights business.industry Torture media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Survey experiment Public opinion 0506 political science Law Political science Perception Terrorism 050602 political science & public administration business Constraint (mathematics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Political Behavior. 40:989-1009 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6687 0190-9320 |
| Popis: | When do Americans support the government’s use of torture? We argue that perceptions of threat undermine the extent to which American public opinion serves as a bulwark against government torture. Although surveys demonstrate that a slim majority of the American public generally opposes torture, using a nationally-representative survey experiment, we show that Americans are considerably more supportive of government abuse when it is directed at individuals who they perceive as threatening: specifically, when a detainee has an Arabic name and when the alleged crime is terrorism. Given the malleability of public opinion as a potential constraint on abuse, our results underscore the importance of institutional protections of human rights. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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