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The Politics of Fear: The Effect of Threat and Television on Foreign Policy Opinion
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Threat, media, and foreign policy opinion
Shana A. Kushner
Princeton University
"Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, September 1-4, 2005. Copyright by the American Political
Science Association."
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Work in progress. Please do not cite without author’s permission.
Abstract: This paper explores the impact of threat and media consumption on American opinion on foreign policy after 9/11. I find that American attitudes toward foreign policy grew more hawkish from 2000 to 2002, with Americans expressing support for increased spending on domestic security and the military. In addition to showing how opinion changes over time, I demonstrate that rather than the threat alone, it is citizens’ perceptions of the threat of terrorism moderated by their television news consumption that structure foreign policy attitudes. Specifically, as individuals watch more television and feel more threatened by terrorism, they are more likely to support troop deployments to countries as varied as Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. Also, they are more likely to want more federal spending on homeland security, including securing borders from illegal immigrants but less likely to want more foreign aid.
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Thank you to Tali Mendelberg, Larry Bartels, Marty Gilens and the members of the American politics
research seminar at Princeton University for their helpful and insightful comments. Any errors or omissions are my own.
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Threat, media, and foreign policy opinion
Shana A. Kushner
Princeton University
"Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, September 1-4, 2005. Copyright by the American Political
Science Association."
Work in progress. Please do not cite without author’s permission.
Abstract: This paper explores the impact of threat and media consumption on American
opinion on foreign policy after 9/11. I find that American attitudes toward foreign policy
grew more hawkish from 2000 to 2002, with Americans expressing support for increased
spending on domestic security and the military. In addition to showing how opinion
changes over time, I demonstrate that rather than the threat alone, it is citizens’
perceptions of the threat of terrorism moderated by their television news consumption that
structure foreign policy attitudes. Specifically, as individuals watch more television and
feel more threatened by terrorism, they are more likely to support troop deployments to
countries as varied as Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. Also, they are more likely to want more
federal spending on homeland security, including securing borders from illegal
immigrants but less likely to want more foreign aid.
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Thank you to Tali Mendelberg, Larry Bartels, Marty Gilens and the members of the American politics
research seminar at Princeton University for their helpful and insightful comments. Any errors or omissions
are my own.
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