From World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique
moments in US political history—but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. To make …

Public support for a conflict is not a blank check. Combat provides information people use to
update their expectations about the outcome, direction, value, and cost of a war. Critical are …

Abstract Why did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? Most scholars cite the
nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a neoconservative desire to spread …

In 1944, Missouri senator Harry S Truman, who four years earlier had cast little shadow on
the American political stage, joined Franklin Roosevelt atop the Democratic ticket as the vice …

In the early stages of the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, military leaders resisted the
release of body count and “casualty ratio” data. However, in the spring of 2004, the US …

The current Russian–Ukrainian War sparked a new wave of misinformation across social
media. However, there is a lack of cross-platform research approaches around war events …

The authors estimate a model of the job approval ratings of President George W. Bush that
includes five sets of variables: a “honeymoon” effect, an autoregressive function that tracks a …

The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the
loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated …

The political 'centre'is often discussed in debates about public policy and analyses of party
strategies and election outcomes. Yet, to date, there has been little effort to estimate the …

How do citizens in authoritarian states feel about their leaders? While some dictators rule
through terror, others seem genuinely popular. Using the Gallup World Poll's panel of more …