We study the factors that influence citizen support for defense spending in fourteen democracies over the period 2004-2013. We pose two research questions: First, what factors influence citizen support for war and military force? We refer to this as the acceptability of war. Second, in addition...

Gender is now recognized as an important dividing line in American political life, and scholars have accumulated evidence that national security issues are an important reason for gender differences in policy preferences. We therefore expect that the dynamics of support for defense spending...

The authors estimate a model of the job approval ratings of President George W. Bush that includes five sets of variables: a “honeymoon†effect, an autoregressive function that tracks a decline in approval, measures of economic performance, measures of important “rally...

There is nowsubstantial evidence that defense spending decisions in the United States are influenced by citizen preferences. However, there is little time-series evidence for countries other than the United States. Regression models of citizen responsiveness and opinion representation in the...