Workshop Chair: William O. Chittick - University of Georgia, Jason Reifler - Georgia State University
Location: Elmwood Room, Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Time: Tuesday, February 16, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Workshop Summary:
This Venture Research Grant aims to integrate research on domestic and foreign policy opinion research by emphasizing core values common to all individuals whether those individuals are policy-makers or members of the general public. Students of international relations usually employ one of three disparate approaches: Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism. These approaches prioritize a different core value and employ a distinct logic; and students of public opinion and foreign policy emphasize as many as three dimensions: militarism/non-militarism, internationalism/isolationism, and multilateralism/unilateralism. Students of American and comparative politics usually emphasize political ideology, that is, a single liberal-conservative dimension. This dimension, however, assumes many different forms, i.e., party I.D., partisanship and political leadership and subsumes a variety of values.
Neither the foreign policy goal questions employed by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (previously Foreign Relations), the National Election Studies, nor Inglehart’s human values surveys simultaneously provide sufficient data on foreign-domestic values. Accordingly, YouGov will conduct an internet survey of values in both domains prior to the workshop. The results of this survey will help participants parcel out the influences of these various values on opinions in both arenas. The workshop will also address various techniques for studying the relations between these values, events, and policy stances. Given the central role of public opinion in government, especially in a democracy, and the finding that democracies do not go to war with one another, this topic has profound implications for the study of both international relations and comparative politics. It not only provides a more unified framework for international studies but also invites scholars in divergent fields to engage in collaborative research. Participants in the workshop have agreed to prepare papers for the workshop or subsequent panels at APSA, ISA, and ISPP meetings. Additional papers will be solicited from scholars that cannot attend the workshop. Ultimately the leaders of the workshop plan to publish many of these papers either in an edited volume or a special journal issue.
Workshop Participants:
- William O. Chittick, University of Georgia, USA
- Jason Reifler, Georgia State Univ., USA
- John Aldrich, Duke University, USA
- Tobias Bohmelt, University of Essex, UK
- Monti Datta, Univ. of Richmond, USA
- Karen Devine, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Christopher F. Gelpi, Duke University, USA
- Richard Herrmann, Ohio State University, USA
- Jack Holmes, Hope College, USA
- Douglas Kriner, Boston University, USA
- Peter Liberman, Queens College (SUNY), USA
- Liliana Pop, London Metro. Univ., UK
- Miroslav Nincic, Univ. of Cal. at Davis, USA
- Jennifer M. Ramos, Loyola Marymount Univ., USA
- Harald Schoen, Bamberg University, Germany
- Thomas J. Scotto, Essex University, UK
