I have some materials relating to my new project on public opinion and war.
Manuscripts
Book Manuscript:
In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq I have completed this book manuscript, forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press sometime in 2009. I have put up the table of contents and the introduction. If you are interested in the full manuscript, please contact me.
Papers
“Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s: The Analysis of Quota Controlled Sample Survey Data” is a methodological piece. In the paper, I describe the manner in which the polling data from the 1930s and 1940s was collected and advance a set of methods to analyze the data from this time. This paper has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
“Assuming The Costs of War: Events, Elites, and The American Public” presents evidence from World War II and the War in Iraq to demonstrate that elite-driven theories of public support for war are more persuasive then unmediated event-driven explanations. This paper has been published at Journal of Politics.
Other
Here is the text of an NSF grant that Eric Schickler (Harvard) and I have received The grant describes the larger data reclamation project we are undertaking. Check back soon for links to the cleaned data.