Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media.
Research shows that emotions alter preferences, which are central to many models of political choice. However, how can theories that explain individual-level preference change explain policy outcomes, which usually take place at higher levels of analysis? I outline three competing approaches to this...
| Published in: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2024
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