Richard C. Eichenberg

Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe

Consensus Lost?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey of European public opinion on national security issues interprets numerous public opinion polls retrieved from government ministries, commercial agencies and educational institutions. It is a comparative and historical survey of the security challenges faced by Western governments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-07709-0
• 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781349077090
• ISBN-10: 1349077097
• Artikelnr.: 44459678

Inhaltsangabe

Crisis or consensus? - public opinion and national security in Western Europe; the ambiguous politics of parity - power and deterrence in European opinion; collision and collusion - the public, nuclear weapons and arms control; the three pillars of Western security - public opinion and the NATO alliance; old politics and new politics - the public and defence spending; two track - continuity, change and consensus in the politics of European security. Appendices: statistical significance between subsamples; a note on sources of public opinion data.