Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia.
Research on public opinion and crisis behavior has focused largely on pressures felt by leaders who have initiated a crisis, not on leaders in target states responding to adversary provocation. Our survey experiment involving 1,823 respondents in Punjab, Pakistan, finds public support for escalating...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 1064 - 1077 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2021
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