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The foreign policy disconnect [electronic resource] : what Americans want from our leaders but don't get / Benjamin I. Page ; with Marshall M. Bouton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American politics and political economyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 356 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226644592 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226644596 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226644618 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226644626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780226644615
  • 9780226644622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Foreign policy disconnect.DDC classification:
  • 327.73009/0511 22
LOC classification:
  • E902 .P34 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : what sort of foreign policy? -- Taking public opinion seriously -- The goals of security and justice -- Friends and foes in the world -- Military strength and the use of force -- Political cooperation -- Economic well-being and economic justice -- A disconnect between policy makers and the public? -- Conclusion : foreign policy and democracy.
Summary: With world affairs so troubled, what kind of foreign policy should the United States pursue? Benjamin Page and Marshall Bouton look for answers in a surprising place: among the American people. Drawing on a series of national surveys conducted between 1974 and 2004, Page and Bouton reveal that?contrary to conventional wisdom?Americans generally hold durable, coherent, and sensible opinions about foreign policy. Nonetheless, their opinions often stand in opposition to those of policymakers, usually because of different interests and values, rather than superior wisdom among the elite. The Forei.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 327(73) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-324) and index.

Introduction : what sort of foreign policy? -- Taking public opinion seriously -- The goals of security and justice -- Friends and foes in the world -- Military strength and the use of force -- Political cooperation -- Economic well-being and economic justice -- A disconnect between policy makers and the public? -- Conclusion : foreign policy and democracy.

With world affairs so troubled, what kind of foreign policy should the United States pursue? Benjamin Page and Marshall Bouton look for answers in a surprising place: among the American people. Drawing on a series of national surveys conducted between 1974 and 2004, Page and Bouton reveal that?contrary to conventional wisdom?Americans generally hold durable, coherent, and sensible opinions about foreign policy. Nonetheless, their opinions often stand in opposition to those of policymakers, usually because of different interests and values, rather than superior wisdom among the elite. The Forei.

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