Gartner and Segura consider the costs of war – both human and political – by examining the consequences of foreign combat, on domestic politics. The personal costs of war – the military war dead and injured – are the most salient measure of war costs generally and the primary instrument through which war affects domestic politics. The authors posit a general framework for understanding war initiation, war policy and war termination in democratic polities, and the role that citizens and their deaths through conflict play in those policy choices. Employing a variety of empirical methods, they examine multiple wars from the last 100 years, conducting analyses of tens of thousands of individuals across a wide variety of historical and hypothetical conditions, whilst also addressing policy implications. This study will be of interest to students and scholars in American foreign policy, international politics, public opinion, national security, American politics, communication studies, and military history.
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1. Introduction; 2. A price theory of war; 3. Calculating war's price: what's it worth, and how much will it cost?; 4. The price theory of war in action: experimental demonstrations of the impacts of expected costs and valuable war aims; 5. Conflict dynamics across space and time: public opinion in the Korea and Vietnam wars; 6. Getting wartime information from over-there to over-here: news media and social networks; 7. Elite opinion formation and its electoral consequences; 8. Conclusion: wars, casualties, politics and policies.
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'Gary Segura and Scott Gartner in this landmark work build on decades of careful empirical research to address one of the most important topics in the study of the politics of war, how casualties affect public support for war. Costly Calculations is a monumental accomplishment that will shape the scholarly agenda for years to come.' Dan Reiter, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science, Emory University
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Considers war initiation, wartime politics, war policies and war termination through the complex roles played by citizen wartime casualties.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781107427952
Publisert
2021-07-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
420 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
151 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
225