Replication Data for: Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments
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Replication Data for: Public Opinion and Nuclear Use: Evidence from Factorial Experiments
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JZ4WG4
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Creator |
Bowen, Tyler
Goldfien, Michael Graham, Matthew |
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Harvard Dataverse
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Does the public oppose nuclear use? Survey experimental research varying either the advantages or disadvantages of nuclear use has produced a wide range of results. Yet no study has examined how the military advantages and strategic and moral disadvantages of nuclear weapons interact. We explore this interaction and uncover a pattern that unifies the literature's seemingly disparate results: the persuasive power of nuclear weapons' military advantages is conditional on their disadvantages. We demonstrate this by independently randomizing both the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear use in (1) a 2 x 2 factorial version of an influential design and (2) a novel adaptation of conjoint experiments that focuses on the most plausible comparisons between nuclear and conventional strikes. Our results support a new explanation for why the public can appear rigidly opposed to nuclear strikes in some circumstances and highly permissive in others.
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Social Sciences
Nuclear weapons Public opinion Nuclear taboo |
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Contributor |
Goldfien, Michael
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