Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: One core issue in civil-military relations is the 'gap' in social and political attitudes between the elite military officers and elite civilians with whom they interact. This gap has been hypothesized to be the product of the nature of military service, a growing estrangement between those who serve and those who do not, and the politicization of the officer corps. Previous work has assessed the manner and degree in which these structural factors are expressed in the social and political attitudes of elite civilian and military personnel, including attitudes toward foreign and defense policy, domestic social and economic issues, political ideology, and perceptions of civilian and military culture. This paper presents the findings of the MADCAP project regarding these issues among elite civilian and military populations in the fall of 2004.