Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics

Chu, Jonathan; Ko, Jiyoung; Liu, Adam

doi:10.1080/03050629.2021.1898955

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“…In particular, it is not yet clear whether foreign citizens' preferences are shaped by their perception of an ally sharing common democracy or an ally's value for security. In an important recent study, Chu, Ko, and Liu (2021) examine the relevant factors for alliance preferences among citizens in a democracy. Specifically, they use a survey experiment to show that while U.S. respondents do prefer allies that are democratic, there is also an important role for perceived security benefits.…”

Section: Theoretical Debatementioning

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Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan

Goldsmith

Horiuchi

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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Scholars and practitioners often argue that the United States’ identity as a democracy contributes to the effectiveness and endurance of US military alliances. One way to test this claim is to ask: what would happen if citizens of allied countries came to perceive US democracy as severely flawed or diminished? In the context of now well-documented Russian interference in recent US elections, we examine whether Russia’s election interference and its perceived impact on American democracy damage foreign public opinion about the United States. The results of our survey experiment fielded in Japan suggest that information about successful Russian election interference—that is, interference that had an impact on the election outcome—reduces foreign citizens’ faith in the United States as an ally. This pattern most clearly manifests in reduced belief in the US capacity to defend Japan. Our study sheds light on the connections between the image of the United States, both as a trustworthy and effective state, and the foreign public’s attitudes toward US alliances, with theoretical and practical implications.

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Section: Theoretical Debatementioning

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Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan

Goldsmith

Horiuchi

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…57 Drezner 2008. 58 Chu, Ko, and Liu, 2021;Krebs 2015. 59 See, for example, Herrmann, Tetlock, and Visser 1999;Wittkopf 1990.…”

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“…18 See, for example,Barkan 2000;Brooks 1999;Espindola 2013;Lind 2009a;Lind 2009b;Lind 2008. There are also rich qualitative studies on intrastate apologies, such as those by Canada(Blatz, Schumann, and Ross 2009) and Australia(Nobles 2014) to historically marginalized groups, and by Brazil(Schneider 2014) and Chile(Verdeja 2010) over political violence committed by prior regimes.19 See, for example,Goldsmith and Horiuchi 2009;Lin-Greenberg 2019;Chu, Ko, and Liu, 2021. 20 Gill 2000;Govier and Verwoerd 2002a;Lazare 2004; Smith 2008;Tavuchis 1991;Verdeja 2010;Weyeneth 2001.…”

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The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion

Kitagawa¹,

Chu²

2021

World Pol.

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Apology diplomacy promises to assuage historical grievances held by foreign publics, yet in practice appears to ignite domestic backlash, raising questions about its efficacy. This article develops a theory of how political apologies affect public approval of an apologizing government across domestic and foreign contexts. The authors test its implications using large-scale survey experiments in Japan and the United States. In the surveys, the authors present vignettes about World War II grievances and randomize the nature of a government apology. They find that apology-making, both as statements acknowledging wrongdoing and as expressions of remorse, boosts approval in the recipient state. But in the apologizing state, backlash is likely among individuals with strong hierarchical group dispositions—manifested as nationalism, social-dominance orientation, and conservatism—and among those who do not consider the recipient a strategically important partner. This microlevel evidence reveals how leaders face a crucial trade-off between improving support abroad and risking backlash at home, with implications for the study of diplomatic communication and transitional justice.

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“…In one study of public opinion and military alliances, Tomz and Weeks (2021) address a different question by showing that the presence of an alliance increases public support for foreign military intervention. Chu, Ko and Liu (2021) explore how values and interest based elite cues shape public attitudes towards alliance maintenance. I build on these works with more general experiments on alliance formation and maintenance that clarify the reach of elite cues.…”

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Elite Cues and Public Attitudes Towards Military Alliances

Alley

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Do elite cues exert extensive, conditional or minimal influence on public support for military alliances in the United States? I assess the boundaries of elite leadership on public opinion towards alliances by dividing partisan respondents into wings based on isolationism and militant assertiveness. If co-partisan elite cues change public attitudes across three or four wings within their party, elites exert extensive influence. Elite cues exert conditional influence if they reach two party wings, and minimal influence if they impact one or no wings. Using two conjoint survey experiments to examine public attitudes towards forming and maintaining international alliances, I find that elite cues exert extensive influence, but some individuals hold rigid alliance attitudes. Staunch alliance supporters in the Democratic party and consistent alliance skeptics in the Republican party both discount elite cues. Therefore, elites can lead most party wings with alliance cues, but intra-party divisions can constrain their influence.

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Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics

Cited by 15 publications

References 91 publications

Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan

Does Russian election interference damage support for US alliances? The case of Japan

The Impact of Political Apologies on Public Opinion

Elite Cues and Public Attitudes Towards Military Alliances

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