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The Politics of Threat: Terrorism (Paperback)
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The Politics of Threat: Terrorism (Paperback)
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Using 9/11 as a starting point, the dissertation offers a
theoretical perspective on how individual level psychological
reactions to threat as well as the political and media environments
fundamentally shape public foreign policy attitudes. Building on
scholarship on public opinion and political communication, this
project pays close attention not only to the type of information
that the public receives but to also to how that information is
communicated in times of crisis. This dissertation argues that the
mass media's focus on the most threatening news combined with
public concern over further terrorism opened a political space for
a hawkish policy message to persuade to the public. This crisis
period provided a unique circumstance for persuasion since the
public was motivated to become informed and there were few messages
competing with President George W. Bush's policy message. By
considering how threat and fear may motivate citizens to seek
information and also provide a space for persuasion, this
dissertation offers a new perspective on how emotions may condition
citizens' reactions to a threatening environment and affect opinion
formation. Chapter 2 describes how Americans view foreign policy
and what types of foreign policies they prefer during both times of
peace and in more threatening times. Chapter 3 develops a
theoretical perspective to explain the role of a threatening
political and media environment on foreign policy attitudes. This
theory pays particular attention to the role of emotion in
affecting the public's attitudes. Chapter 4 examines the effect of
citizens' beliefs about the likelihood of further terrorism on
foreign policy attitudes using the NES 2000-2002-2004 panel. The
chapter finds that Americans concerned about terrorism were more
likely to prefer policies that demanded military force than
policies that emphasized conciliation compared to citizens
unconcerned about the terrorist threat. Chapter 5 explores the
origins of citizens' perceptions of threat, particularly, how
individual level predispositions and behaviors such as media use
influence beliefs about the risk of terrorism. The chapter tests
the effect of threatening news on individuals' threat perception
using the Threat Experiment, an original media experiment designed
for the project. Using the Threat Experiment, Chapter 6 shows that
when threatening information is paired with fear cues in news
stories that those respondents concerned about terrorism are
significantly more likely to support militaristic foreign policy
than respondents who only receive the threatening information.
Chapter 7 demonstrates that foreign policy attitudes affect voters'
decisions and there are strategic incentives for both Democratic
and Republican candidates to take hawkish positions in order to
gain votes at election time. Chapter 8 focuses on how the same
mechanisms that influenced foreign policy may matter for other
policy areas such as immigration, public health, and crime.
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