International Public Opinion of the United Nations: A Comparative Analysis

Millard, W. J.

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“…Eichenberg and Dalton, 1993;Weßels, 1995). A similar conclusion can be drawn from studies that use survey evidence to prove that public attitudes on global institutions like the UN are consistently structured according to theoretical expectations (Dellmuth and Tallberg, 2011;Ecker-Ehrhardt, 2012;Furia, 2005;Gravelle, 2011;Millard, 1993;Norris, 2000).…”

Section: Public Cosmopolitanism or Particularism?supporting

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“…Growing public expectation that international institutions will be able to solve pressing political problems as well as the increasingly feared costs of abdicating national sovereignty are thought to play a crucial role in the formation of public attitudes (Ecker-Ehrhardt, 2012;Hooghe and Marks, 2009). However, empirical accounts of what citizens think about international institutions and why they do so are rare, at least with respect to global institutions like the UN (see also Dellmuth and Tallberg, 2011;Gravelle, 2011;Machida, 2009;Millard, 1993).…”

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Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Ecker-Ehrhardt

2014

International Political Science Review

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Why do citizens support or reject the idea of global authority? The article addresses this question by examining individual attitudes about UN authority in a comparative perspective. Using data from the fifth wave of the World Values Survey (2005)(2006)(2007), the analysis shows that global public support for UN authority largely depends on a cosmopolitan understanding of global interdependence and moral universalism. However, the analysis of contextual variables also suggests that a "particularist" calculus of national costs and benefits explains citizens' support for (and rejection of) UN authority to a significant extent. Most remarkably, citizens of powerful states favor UN authority much more than do those from weaker countries -a possible indication that UN authority is expected to further privilege the former to the disadvantage of the latter.

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Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Ecker-Ehrhardt

2014

International Political Science Review

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“…The support provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) for this ongoing research project is also gratefully acknowledged, as is the research assistance of Vincent French. The 1984The , 1993The , 1997 Canadian election studies were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the data were made available by the Blais, Henry Brady, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Neil Nevitte; 1997, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte;, André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Richard Nadeau, and Neil Nevitte. The July 1956 and October 1956 Gallup polls (CIPO 250 and 252) were made available by the Data Centre at Carleton University, Ottawa.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The support provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) for this ongoing research project is also gratefully acknowledged, as is the research assistance of Vincent French. The 1984The , 1993The , 1997 Canadian election studies were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the data were made available by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at York University. Principal investigators for the studies are as follows: 1984, R.D.…”

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Political Knowledge and Electoral Participation in the Netherlands: Comparisons with the Canadian Case

Howe

2006

International Political Science Review

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Recent research suggests a significant connection between declining voter turnout among younger Canadian cohorts and diminished levels of political knowledge. This article seeks to develop these findings further by drawing contrasts with a country (the Netherlands) that has not witnessed a significant turnout decline among the young to see whether political knowledge levels have likewise remained stable. The results partly confound expectations: as in Canada, a growing knowledge gap between young and old is evident in the Netherlands. Voting among young Dutch cohorts has not been markedly affected, however, because knowledge has less impact on electoral participation than in Canada. Hypotheses that help explain these patterns, and which might be tested in further comparative research, are advanced.

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“…Cross-national studies of public opinion often make comparisons of single survey items without giving due consideration to cross-cultural validity. Survey researchers may probe attitudes toward topical issues such as attitudes towards the United Nations, and conclude, for example, that Canadians and Australians are more supportive of the United Nations than Americans (Fagan and Huang 2019;Millard 1993). Yet, comparisons of single items provide limited insight into how these questions are perceived by citizens of different states.…”

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The structure of foreign policy attitudes among middle power publics: a transpacific replication

Gravelle¹,

Reifler

Scotto

2020

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Empirical models illustrating how mass publics organise their views on foreign policy issues abound. Models that posit militant internationalism and cooperative internationalism as the two factors structuring mass foreign policy attitudes and that typically rely on American survey data have given way to models positing a larger number of underlying factors supported by cross-national survey data. Still, there are few studies assessing the cross-national validity of multi-factor models. Further, middle power states that must navigate between international leadership and followership remain understudied. This article draws on new survey data from Canada and Australia -two archetypal middle power states -to replicate a recent and influential model of foreign policy attitudes comprised of four factors: cooperative internationalism, militant internationalism, isolationism, and support for global justice. Using an exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) framework, it finds that the four-factor structure of foreign policy attitudes observed in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany obtains among the Canadian and Australian publics, yet there are country-specific nuances that suggest differences in the ways Canadians and Australians perceive foreign policy options.

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International Public Opinion of the United Nations: A Comparative Analysis

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Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Political Knowledge and Electoral Participation in the Netherlands: Comparisons with the Canadian Case

The structure of foreign policy attitudes among middle power publics: a transpacific replication

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