Conventional wisdom holds that war casualties depress incumbent popularity. We argue that the strength and even the … direction of these effects is inherently context-dependent because the perception of casualties varies over time and space …

Extensive research demonstrates that war casualties depress incumbent popularity. The present study argues that … political cost of war casualties (e.g., in the Korean and Iraq/Afghanistan Wars). Interestingly, the adverse effect of war … warfare either directly affect presidential popularity (e.g., in the Korean War) or their inclusion affects the predicted …

Extensive research demonstrates that war casualties depress incumbent popularity. The present study argues that … political cost of war casualties (e.g., in the Korean and Iraq/Afghanistan Wars). Interestingly, the adverse effect of war … warfare either directly affect presidential popularity (e.g., in the Korean War) or their inclusion affects the predicted …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data ….S. Active Duty service members having served at some point during the years 2001-2012. Casualties disproportionately occur at …

roles they play. These roles include Primary Casualty Information (e.g., monthly casualties), which directly influences … opinion; Contextual Casualty Information (e.g., enemy casualties), which mitigates the effect of primary casualties; and two … information to evaluate costs. I use the reporting of female casualties to represent an example of secondary casualty information …