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This analysis offers a comparative perspective on public support for military operations against Iraq for George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. This research tests the hypothesis that there are partisan, ideological, and other attitudinal differences in support for the first Gulf War in 1991, which was a defensive war in response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and the preemptive war in Iraq led by George W. Bush, justified in the larger context of America’s war on global terrorism.
This comparative analysis relies on individual-level data from ABC News/Washington Post and CBS/New York Times polls obtained from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Using several common dependent variables derived from various polls surrounding the conflicts, a logit model of public support is constructed, and “mean effects” are calculated to determine differences in support for the two presidents. The dependent variable is approval of the way the presidents were handling the situation in Iraq, while the independent variables are overall approval, partisanship, ideology, gender, education, and age.
Conclusions drawn from this analysis show that there were significant changes in attitudes, particularly among women and Democrats, towards U.S. military intervention in Iraq across the contexts of the two conflicts. These results accentuate a shift in the fundamental basis for public support of the presidential war power in the post 9/11 era. |
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| Odachowski, Allison. "Public Support for Military Operations in Iraq: A Comparative Analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40983_index.html> |
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| Odachowski, A. C. , 2005-09-01 "Public Support for Military Operations in Iraq: A Comparative Analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40983_index.html |
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Abstract: This analysis offers a comparative perspective on public support for military operations against Iraq for George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. This research tests the hypothesis that there are partisan, ideological, and other attitudinal differences in support for the first Gulf War in 1991, which was a defensive war in response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, and the preemptive war in Iraq led by George W. Bush, justified in the larger context of America’s war on global terrorism.
This comparative analysis relies on individual-level data from ABC News/Washington Post and CBS/New York Times polls obtained from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Using several common dependent variables derived from various polls surrounding the conflicts, a logit model of public support is constructed, and “mean effects” are calculated to determine differences in support for the two presidents. The dependent variable is approval of the way the presidents were handling the situation in Iraq, while the independent variables are overall approval, partisanship, ideology, gender, education, and age.
Conclusions drawn from this analysis show that there were significant changes in attitudes, particularly among women and Democrats, towards U.S. military intervention in Iraq across the contexts of the two conflicts. These results accentuate a shift in the fundamental basis for public support of the presidential war power in the post 9/11 era. |
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| “Public Support for Military Operations in Iraq: A Comparative Analysis” Allison Clark Odachowski University of Florida This paper was 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. 1 Although there are similarities between the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 each military operation took place under a different set of circumstances. The first Gulf War occurred due to |
| 2003) 24 “Generally speaking do you think of yourself as a Democrat a Republican an Independent or what?” (January 2003) Ideology “How would you describe your views on more political matters? Generally do you think of yourself as liberal moderate or conservative?” (November 1990 January 1991 March 2003) “Would you say your views on most political matters are liberal moderate or conservative?” (January 2003) Education “What is the last grade in school you completed?” (November 1990 January 1991 March |
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