caa a22 4500 388078340 CHVBK 20180307125204.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585574 doi S0003055400218182 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585574 Mass Public Decisions on Go to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework [Elektronische Daten] How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey that incorporated five experiments. Findings include the following: (1) Respondent dispositions, especially isolationism versus internationalism and assertiveness versus accommodativeness, consistently constrained policy preferences, whereas liberalism-conservatism did not; (2) features of the geopolitical context—the presence of U.S. interests, relative power, the images of the adversary's motivations, and judgments about cultural status—also influenced support for military intervention; and (3) systematic interactions emerged between dispositions and geopolitical context that shed light on when and why ideological disagreements about the use of force are likely to be amplified and attenuated by situational factors. Our results are consistent with a cognitive-interactionist perspective, in which people adapt broad predispositions in relatively thoughtful ways to specific foreign policy problems. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Herrmann Richard K. Ohio State University Tetlock Philip E. Ohio State University Visser Penny S. Ohio State University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 553-573 0003-0554 93:3<553 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585574 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585574 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Herrmann Richard K. Ohio State University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tetlock Philip E. Ohio State University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Visser Penny S. Ohio State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/3(1999-09), 553-573 0003-0554 93:3<553 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge