Rally 'round the union jack? Public opinion and the use of force in the United Kingdom, 1948-2001

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作者
Lai, B [1 ]
Reiter, D
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[1] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
[2] Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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10.1111/j.0020-8833.2005.00344.x
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D81 [国际关系];
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030207 ;
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This paper provides the most comprehensive and extensive analysis to date of the possibility of a "rally 'round the flag" effect-an increase in support for the government caused by involvement in international conflict-in Britain, for the years 1948-2001. We use a fractionally integrated time series model with an array of political and economic controls. Our primary dependent variable is intention to vote for the ruling party. The results confirm earlier studies that the Falklands War generated a rally effect, but they provide a more sophisticated understanding of the Gulf War rally. New results also include the findings that participation in international crises which stopped short of war did not engender rallies, and that there were no rallies for the Korean, Suez, or Kosovo Wars. The findings indicate that when they do occur rallies are heterogeneous in nature, that rallies are most likely when there is intense and direct threat to the national interest, that the relationship between multilateralism and rallies in the British case is tenuous, and that rallies for the ruling party are sometimes expressed through satisfaction with the prime minister.
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