American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy : General Public, 1979

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American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy : General Public, 1979

Title remainder

General Public, 1979

Statement of responsibility

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Subject

• Foreign affairs
• Military intervention
• Domestic policy
• National security
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989 -- Public opinion
• Statistics
• Citizen attitudes
• United States
• Communist threat
• Foreign policy
• Public opinion
• Political attitudes
• Public approval
• Public opinion -- United States
• Arms race
• United States -- Foreign relations | Public opinion
• Foreign aid
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Public opinion
• Diplomacy
• Political participation
• National elites
• Policy making
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Public opinion
• Cold War
• International relations
• Leadership
• National interests

Genre

• Statistics

Language

eng

Summary

These data were gathered in personal interviews with a national sample of United States citizens by the Gallup Organization, Inc., to measure attitudes toward foreign affairs in November 1978. Respondents were asked to list the biggest problems facing the country, in general, as well as the biggest foreign policy problems. Other questions explored the relationship between domestic and foreign policy priorities, e.g., aid to education, defense spending, farm subsidies, economic and military aid to other nations, and domestic welfare/reliefprograms. Respondents gave their opinions of what constituted appropriate responses to the growing military power of the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), and they rated the threat that communism presented in several other countries. Respondents were asked to respond favorably or unfavorably to several scenarios in which the use of United States armed forces in other parts of the world could be justified. Respondents were asked to rate the performance of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and to use a "thermometer" scale to measure their feelings (warm or cold) toward several politicians and world leaders, as well as toward several countries that were important to the United States for political, economic, or security reasons. Opinions were sought about the type of role that various individuals and institutions (e.g., the president, the CIA, the military, the United Nations, and the Congress) should play in the creation of foreign policy. Respondents' political participation was also measured. Demographic information includes age, race, sex, income, sources of information in the media, religion, educational level, occupation, and political orientation. In a similar survey conducted from November 1978 to January 1979, many of the same questions were asked of Americans in senior positions with knowledge of and influence on foreign po... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07748

Member of

• ICPSR (Series), 7748

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Also available as downloadable files.

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MiAaI

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combination

Funding information

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

Geographic coverage

United States, Global.

Government publication

unknown if item is government publication

Series statement

• ICPSR
• American Public Opinion and United States Foreign Policy Series

Series volume

• 7748
• 7748

Target audience

specialized