Personality traits and foreign policy attitudes: A cross-national exploratory study

Gravelle, Timothy B.; Reifler, Jason; Scotto, Thomas J.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.109607

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“…Pruysers (2020) and Pruysers et al (2019) analyzed how the Dark Triad and the HEXACO influence attitudes toward refugees, good citizenship and civic duty. Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed the role of the citizen's personality in Canada (Chen et al, 2020; Gravelle et al, 2020). Blais and St-Vincent (2011) examined the effects of four traits (altruism, shyness, efficacy and conflict avoidance) during the 2008 federal election.…”

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The Political Implications of Personality in Canada

Bergeron

Galipeau

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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Few studies have focused on the Canadian context to examine the political impacts of personality. Even though the Canadian Election Study (CES) has measured the Big Five personality traits since 2011, very few studies have taken advantage of this data to assess personality's political role among the Canadian electorate. Using CES data from the three latest elections (2011, 2015 and 2019), we first explore how reliable the measurement of personality is. Except for agreeableness in 2015, the correlations across the personality items are similar to what is typically found in the literature. We next examine how personality affects ideology and partisan identity in the Canadian context. We show that a two-dimensional measurement of ideology refines our understanding of the impacts of personality on ideology. The findings also suggest that personality plays an essential role in forming ideology in Canada but has a limited impact on partisanship.

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The Political Implications of Personality in Canada

Bergeron

Galipeau

2021

Can J Pol Sci

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“…Given our focus on the issue of measurement invariance in cross-national survey research applied to public opinion on foreign policy, we set aside (for the moment) the question of prediction -that is, what factors influence foreign policy attitudes. Since the broad foreign policy orientations we find replicate cross-nationally, this suggests that they may have psychological roots, and originate with individuals' core values and personality traits (Gravelle, Reifler, and Scotto 2020;Rathbun et al 2016). We see this as an area ripe for further comparative, cross-national research.…”

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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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“…In brief, we find that ideology shapes broad foreign policy postures (cf. Gravelle, Reifler, and Scotto 2020), yet these postures do not fully mediate the effect of ideology on perceptions of Trudeau specifically or foreign leaders generally (see Tables A9 and A10 in the online appendix). In light of these results, we contend that our focus on ideology and its relationship to support for border restrictions is appropriate.…”

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The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada

Skinner

Gravelle²,

Klar

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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When individuals evaluate policies, they consider both the policy’s content and its endorsers. In this study, we investigate the conditions under which these sometimes competing factors guide preferences. In an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, American President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau bilaterally agreed to close their shared border to refugee claimants and asylum seekers. These ideologically opposed leaders endorsing a common policy allows us to test the influence of a well-known foreign neighbor on domestic policy evaluations. With a large cross-national survey experiment, we first find that Canadians and Americans follow ideological positions in evaluating the policy, with right-leaning respondents offering the most support. With an experiment, we reveal how both populations shift their views when told about their neighboring leader’s endorsement. Our findings highlight ideologically motivated reasoning across an international border, with broad implications for understanding how individuals weigh a policy’s content against its political cues.

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Personality traits and foreign policy attitudes: A cross-national exploratory study

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

The Political Implications of Personality in Canada

The Political Implications of Personality in Canada

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

The Competing Influence of Policy Content and Political Cues: Cross-Border Evidence from the United States and Canada

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