Our purpose was to develop and test several hypotheses concerning the impact of poll-question wording on aggregate public support for war. We drew on general insights from framing theory and specific insights from various theories of public support for war. Copyright (c) 2008 by the Southwestern...

The conventional wisdom of national elections suggests that there are electoral costs associated with opposing declarations of war. However, an alternative literature contends that the negative electoral consequences of waging war may be borne by legislators who supported war, especially those...

Economics has long been thought to influence vote choice. Unfortunately, the temporal pattern of economic evaluations is little studied. Using the Senate elections of 1956 through 1988, this research presents an assessment of the role of retrospective and prospective evaluations on vote choice....