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Interdependent preferences, militarism, and child gender / Urbatsch, R

Urbatsch, R	Journal Article
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2009.

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Selection effects make it difficult to determine whether concern for other people genuinely affects individuals' policy preferences. Child gender provides a conveniently exogenous means of exploring the issue, especially in contexts such as military policy where girls and boys face different risks; in many countries male children are disproportionately likely to become soldiers and thus bear the costs of militarism. This creates divergent effects: those in households with girls generally prefer more hawkish foreign policies than do members of households with boys. Data from the 2004 American National Election Study confirm these intuitions, both in general statements of policy preference and in evaluating the net costs of the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

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Militarism ; Policy Preferences ; Child Gender

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ID: 096563

Isolationism and domestic politics / Urbatsch, R

Urbatsch, R	Journal Article
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2010.

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Isolationism has long been seen as a reaction against domestic economic conditions or a threatening international environment, but domestic politics could equally spur such a reaction. Disagreement with current foreign policy or opposition to political parties directing foreign policy may provoke negative feelings on the general prospect of international engagement. Some of what appears to be isolationism, then, is not a universal rejection of international intervention but is instead contingent on partisan control of the executive. Data from the American National Election Studies confirms this: copartisans of the president are substantially less likely to agree with isolationist statements or simultaneously to support isolationism and specific interventionist policies. In addition to further illuminating the sources of public opinion about foreign policy, these findings suggest that some common measures of isolationism may not measure what they intend to measure.

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International Environment ; Domestic Politics ; Isolationism ; Domestic Economic Conditions ; Interventionist Policies ; Foreign Policy

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ID: 131692

Nominal partisanship: names as political identity signals / Urbatsch, R

Urbatsch, R	Journal Article
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2014.

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United States ; Democrats ; Partisan Identity ; Nominal Partisanship ; Political Identity Signals ; Republican Populations ;
Parental Identity ; Local Political Environment

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