ICPSR - 8712 - American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1986

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Study - 8712

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American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1986
(Principal Investigator, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. )

Summary

This data collection offers information on the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of elites, or opinion leaders, on matters relating to foreign policy. The primary objectives of this study were to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision makers must operate and to compare the attitudes of the general public with those of opinion leaders. For the purposes of this study, ''opinion leaders'' are defined as those who are in positions of leadership in government, academia, business and labor, the media, religious institutions, special interest groups, and private foreign policy organizations. Variables in the general public cross-section file and the elite file include opinions on specific foreign policy problems, economic and military aid to other countries, the role of the United States in foreign affairs, use of United States troops in other parts of the world, a nuclear freeze, the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (''Star Wars''), and terrorism. Demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, income, marital status, and educational achievement are also supplied in the cross-section file, along with feeling thermometers which probe for the respondent's attitudes toward various foreign countries and toward well-known political figures. A follow-up survey of the general public was also undertaken to identify changes in attitudes that might have occurred in the aftermath of the Iran/Contra affair. This follow-up file contains a limited set of pertinent variables from the original general public cross-section study.

Citation

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, 1986 [Computer file]. Chicago, IL: Chicago Council on Foreign Relations [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987.

Codebook

The codebook for this study is located on the 4th floor of the Main Library with the call number of E840 .A635 1986. There is an electronic version in PDF format which can be downloaded.

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Filename (Size in KB)	LRECL Logical RECord Length	Dataset Details
da8712xs (648K)	408	Data file for study 8712
sp8712xs (59K)	80	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
da8712el (71K)	207	Data file for study 8712
sp8712el (32K)	80	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file
da8712fu (81K)	80	Data file for study 8712
sp8712fu (11K)	80	Refer to the codebook for the documentation on this file

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