IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/joupea/v7y1970i1p33-47.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Generational Succession as a Source of Foreign Policy Attitudes

Author

Listed:
  • Neal E. Cutler

    (Department of Political Science and Foreign Policy Research Institute University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract

This study analyzes generational trends in American foreign policy attitudes over the 1946-66 period. Through the secondary analysis of old public opinion polls, each of which can be sorted on the age variable, it is possible to adapt the demographer's concept of cohort analysis for the investigation of longitudinal attitude trends. While isolating the generational effects, the logic and technique of cohort analysis eliminate the maturation effects of the age variable. Eight question-sets, representing cognitions, evaluations, and policy preferences germane to foreign policy, were subjected to cohort analysis.Several identifiable generational trends were located. The historically more recent genera tional cohorts are correlated with greater salience of foreign policy, greater the expectation of war, and greater the support for various foreign policy alternatives. In general, the data support the image of historically older generations as being somewhat isolationist, in the sense of desiring minimal contact with the outside world, while the more recent generational cohorts support a multifaceted engagement with the outside world.

Suggested Citation

  • Neal E. Cutler, 1970. "Generational Succession as a Source of Foreign Policy Attitudes," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 7(1), pages 33-47, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:7:y:1970:i:1:p:33-47
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/7/1/33.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Robert Harmel & Yao-Yuan Yeh, 2015. "China's Age Cohorts: Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 96(1), pages 214-234, March.

    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:sae:joupea:v:7:y:1970:i:1:p:33-47. 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: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.prio.no/ .

    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.