IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jexpos/v6y2019i02p71-80_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Are There Long-Term Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Political Attitudes or Behavior? Apparently Not

Author

Listed:
  • Green, Donald P.
  • Davenport, Tiffany C.
  • Hanson, Kolby

Abstract

The Vietnam draft lottery exposed millions of men to risk of induction at a time when the Vietnam War was becoming increasingly unpopular. We study the long-term effects of draft risk on political attitudes and behaviors of men who were eligible for the draft in 1969–1971. Our 2014–2016 surveys of men who were eligible for the Vietnam draft lotteries reveal no appreciable effect of draft risk across a wide range of political attitudes. These findings are bolstered by analysis of a vast voter registration database, which shows no differences in voting rates or tendency to register with the Democratic or Republican parties. The pattern of weak long-term effects is in line with studies showing that the long-term economic effects of Vietnam draft risk dissipated over time and offers a counterweight to influential observational studies that report long-term persistence in the effects of early experiences on political attitudes.

Suggested Citation

  • Green, Donald P. & Davenport, Tiffany C. & Hanson, Kolby, 2019. "Are There Long-Term Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Political Attitudes or Behavior? Apparently Not," Journal of Experimental Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(2), pages 71-80, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jexpos:v:6:y:2019:i:02:p:71-80_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2052263018000180/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jexpos:v:6:y:2019:i:02:p:71-80_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/xps .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.