All Politics Are Local
Local Losses and Individual Attitudes toward the Vietnam War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6285263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Sigmund Gartner (Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis), Gary M Segura (0000-0001-6013-1705, Claremont Graduate University), Michael Wilkening (Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 669-694 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0022002797041005004 |
| OpenAlex | W2112118306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 97 |
| References cited | 37 |
Inquiries into the domestic determinants of international behavior, including democratic peace arguments, build on the pioneering work of Mueller by presupposing that individuals in a democracy are extremely sensitive to casualties. The authors hypothesize that this relationship is, in part, dependent on the rate at which casualties accumulate and the local variation in these costs. Employing, for the first time, spatially disaggregated “killed in action” data, the authors offer a multivariate logit model of individual opinion on the administration's policies in Vietnam as a function of both local- and national-level casualties. The authors find that recent county-level losses and partisanship are important predictors of individual opinion on the president's policies early in the war as marginal casualties increased but are less helpful in understanding opinion in the war's later years when marginal casualties declined. Conversely, a number of individual-level variables that had minimal explanatory power at the beginning of the conflict become more important
Democracy · Demographic economics · Development economics · Econometrics · Economics · Explanatory power · Logistic regression · Logit · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Statistics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
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| Unique citing works | 97 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,46 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 97 |