Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: The Effect of Information Stimulus on Levels of Support for Foreign Aid and Coalition Withdrawal
| Autor: | Mari Miyagawa, Yoshitaka Komiya, Atsushi Tago |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Stimulus (economics) Coalition of the willing business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Public opinion 0506 political science Politics Tax revenue Foreign policy Political science Political economy Perception 050602 political science & public administration business Use of force media_common |
| Zdroj: | Emerging Risks in a World of Heterogeneity ISBN: 9789811079672 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-10-7968-9_7 |
| Popis: | The chapter uses two survey experiments to see how information stimulus can change public perception on two key foreign policy instruments: foreign aid and military coalition. Foreign aid is financed by tax revenue and must be supported by a wide range of general public to continue. In a similar vein, use of force abroad needs public support, and this is especially true in democracies. To conduct comparative survey experiments on these two foreign policy instruments, Japan was selected as a field of experiment. This is because the country is an interesting case due to its constitutional prohibition of using force abroad and heavy reliance on foreign aid as a means to exercise its influence abroad. We take advantage of this unique setting and reveal how political information can change the level of public support for key foreign policy agendas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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