Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons : New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10443888" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10443888 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fSpSwof5FC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=fSpSwof5FC</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac017" target="_blank" >10.1093/isq/sqac017</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons : New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians

Original language description

A recent surge in survey-based scholarship has shed new light on public attitudes toward nuclear weapons. Yet, we still know little about how these public attitudes differ from those of political elites. To address this gap, we conducted an original survey on a large representative sample of German citizens and on a unique elite sample of German parliamentarians. In the survey, we asked the respondents about their views on different aspects of NATO&apos;s nuclear sharing practice. We found support for several hypotheses concerning nuclear use, extended deterrence, withdrawal of forward-deployed weapons, and the feasibility of global nuclear disarmament. As such, we provide systematic empirical evidence that there are, indeed, important gaps in public and elite attitudes toward nuclear weapons. Our findings underscore the argument that scholars should survey both political elites and the general public to obtain a comprehensive picture of attitudes toward pertinent questions in our field.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Studies Quarterly

ISSN

0020-8833

e-ISSN

1468-2478

Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

UT code for WoS article

000796699200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85132715448