Misreading the Public : The Myth of a New Isolationism.
5 Foreign Aid -- Policy Practitioners' Perceptions of Public Attitudes -- Eliminating Foreign Aid -- Exceptions for Extreme Humanitarian Needs -- Overestimation of Size Given Little Significance -- Dissatisfaction with Performance Given Little Significance -- Public Attitudes -- Support Based o...
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Washington DC :
Brookings Institution Press,
1999.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.17497187 |
| Crynodeb: | 5 Foreign Aid -- Policy Practitioners' Perceptions of Public Attitudes -- Eliminating Foreign Aid -- Exceptions for Extreme Humanitarian Needs -- Overestimation of Size Given Little Significance -- Dissatisfaction with Performance Given Little Significance -- Public Attitudes -- Support Based on Altruism -- Support Linked to Self-Interest -- Reservations Based on Overestimation of Size -- Reservations Based on Program Performance and Priorities -- Summary -- 6 Defense Spending -- Policy Practitioners' Perceptions of Public Attitudes -- Response to Deep Cuts -- Reasons for Support Do American policymakers really know what the American public wants in U.S. foreign policy? Through extensive interviews with members of the policy community, the authors reveal a pervasive belief--especially in Congress--that, in the wake of the cold war, the public is showing a new isolationism: opposition to foreign aid, hostility to the United Nations, and aversion to contributing U.S. troops to peacekeeping operations. This view of the public has in turn had a significant impact on U.S. foreign policy. However, through a comprehensive review of polling data, as well as focus groups, the a. |
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| Disgrifiad o'r Eitem: | Description based upon print version of record. Challenges Based on Assumptions about the Effective Public |
| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780815791386 0815791380 9780815717669 |