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The structure of foreign policy attitudes in transatlantic perspective: Comparing the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany
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Abstract
While public opinion about foreign policy has been studied extensively in the United States, there is less systematic research of foreign policy opinions in other countries. Given that public opinion about international affairs affects who gets elected in democracies and then constrains the foreign ... mehr
While public opinion about foreign policy has been studied extensively in the United States, there is less systematic research of foreign policy opinions in other countries. Given that public opinion about international affairs affects who gets elected in democracies and then constrains the foreign policies available to leaders once elected, both comparative politics and international relations scholarship benefit from more systematic investigation of foreign policy attitudes outside the United States. Using new data, this article presents a common set of core constructs structuring both American and European attitudes about foreign policy. Surveys conducted in four countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany) provide an expanded set of foreign policy-related survey items that are analysed using exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM). Measurement equivalence is specifically tested and a common four-factor structure that fits the data in all four countries is found. Consequently, valid, direct comparisons of the foreign policy preferences of four world powers are made. In the process, the four-factor model confirms and expands previous work on the structure of foreign policy attitudes. The article also demonstrates the capability of ESEM in testing the dimensionality and cross-national equivalence of social science concepts.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Außenpolitik; Einstellung; öffentliche Meinung; Indikator; USA; Europa; Großbritannien; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Frankreich; internationaler Vergleich; vergleichende Forschung; vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
cross-national research
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2017
Seitenangabe
S. 757-776
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Political Research, 56 (2017) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12197
ISSN
1475-6765
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)