Nonproliferation Information and Attitude Change
Evidence From South Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6283876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sangyong Son (0000-0002-1855-3776, New York University, New York, NY, USA), Jong Hee Park (0000-0002-4598-3456, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1095-1127 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027221126723 |
| OpenAlex | W4296183000 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 90 |
What explains the foreign policy gap between elites and the general public on nuclear proliferation? We investigate specific contexts in which experts’ nonproliferation information changes public attitudes toward nuclear weapons development using a novel attitude change experiment. By randomly assigning seven categories of nonproliferation information to pro-armament survey participants, we examine how different types of nonproliferation information affect pro-armament respondents’ opinions and behavioral choices. The results of our experiment demonstrate the enlightening effect of economic sanctions information. After learning about the economic costs and consequences of nuclear weapons development, pro-armament respondents substantially changed their opinion as well as behaviors toward nuclear proliferation. In comparison to economic sanctions information, other types of nonproliferation information (e.g. conditional military punishment, normative sanctions, nuclear technology sanctions, elite or public opposition to proliferation) have limited effects on pro-armament subjects’ attitude changes. These findings are the first to identify the relative explanatory powers of previous explanations for nuclear nonproliferation at the individual level
Economic sanctions · Elite · Normative · Nuclear weapon · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public relations · Sanctions · Economic Sanctions and International Relations · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Social and Intergroup Psychology
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Motivated Reasoning or Cooperative Internationalism? Ideology and Public Responses to International Endorsements
Social desirability bias and public opinion on nuclear weaponization
External Threat and Nuclear Preferences
Attention beyond the battlefield
South Korean Cost Sensitivity and Support for Nuclear Weapons
Preventive Nuclearization
The Rationalizing Voter
The Nuclear Taboo
Nonproliferation Norms
Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand
Attitude Strength
The Persuasiveness of Source Credibility
Attitudes and Attitude Change
Attitudes and Attitude Change
The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation
The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion
Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions About Emergent Technologies
Nuclear Logics
Public Opinion and Foreign Aid
Elite Consensus as a Determinant of Alliance Cohesion
Alliance and Public Preference for Nuclear Forbearance
Security Commitments and Nuclear Proliferation
Forum
Atomic bombast
Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work
Spreading Temptation
Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
Alliance Coercion and Nuclear Restraint
Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran
Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation
Back to the Future
The Stopping Power of Norms
The Sanctions Debate and the Logic of Choice
The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Proliferation
Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons
The public and Atlantic defense
Paranoids, Pygmies, Pariahs & Nonproliferation
Why States Go—And Don't Go—Nuclear
On the social psychology of the psychological experiment
Correlates of South Korean Public Opinion on Nuclear Proliferation
How Conditioning on Posttreatment Variables Can Ruin Your Experiment and What to Do about It
The Influence of Foreign Voices on U.S. Public Opinion
Antinormative Messaging, Group Cues, and the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Theoretical and Empirical Implications of Attitude Strength
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When Leaders Matter
Asking About Attitude Change
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Public Opinion Formation
Encountering Dissimilar Views in Deliberation
The Social Basis of Voting Correctly
Shot by the Messenger
Resistance to Position Change, Motivated Reasoning, and Polarization
Can Partisan Cues Diminish Democratic Accountability
Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments
The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals
The Correlates of Nuclear Proliferation
Greater Goods
Determinants of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Performing on Cue? The Formation of Public Opinion Toward War
Credible Nuclear Security Commitments Can Backfire
Talking Peace, Making Weapons
Importing the Bomb
Security Guarantees and Allied Nuclear Proliferation
Playing to the Home Crowd? Symbolic Use of Economic Sanctions in the United States1
Conflict Expectations and the Paradox of Economic Coercion
Examining Explanations for Nuclear Proliferation
Foreign Policy Gaps between Citizens and Leaders
The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions
Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail
The Nuclear Taboo
Europe Divided
The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
Experimentalmethods Inpoliticalscience
Framing and Deliberation
Learning More from Political Communication Experiments
Re‐Assessing Elite‐Public Gaps in Political Behavior
Signaling Alliance Commitments
A Bottom‐Up Theory of Public Opinion about Foreign Policy
The Brooding Shadow
Atomic Leverage
The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined
The case for motivated reasoning
The political consequences of uninformed voters
Demand Effects in Survey Experiments
Atomic Aversion
Explaining Causal Findings Without Bias
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision Making
Elite Military Cues and Public Opinion About the Use of Military Force
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |