Costly calculations : a theory of war, casualties, and politics / Scott Sigmund Gartner, Gary M. Segura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gartner, Scott Sigmund, 1963- author.

Segura, Gary M., 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and war--United States.

Politics and war.

Elections--United States--History.

Elections.

War--Public opinion.

War.

Mass media and war--United States.

Mass media and war.

Conflict management--United States.

Conflict management.

War and society--United States.

War and society.

War--Economic aspects--United States.

War casualties--United States.

War casualties.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Gartner and Segura consider the costs of war - both human and political - by examining the consequences of foreign combat, on domestic politics. The personal costs of war - the military war dead and injured - are the most salient measure of war costs generally and the primary instrument through which war affects domestic politics. The authors posit a general framework for understanding war initiation, war policy and war termination in democratic polities, and the role that citizens and their deaths through conflict play in those policy choices. Employing a variety of empirical methods, they examine multiple wars from the last 100 years, conducting analyses of tens of thousands of individuals across a wide variety of historical and hypothetical conditions, whilst also addressing policy implications. This study will be of interest to students and scholars in American foreign policy, international politics, public opinion, national security, American politics, communication studies, and military history.

Contents:

Introduction

A price theory of war

Calculating war's price: What's it worth, and how much will it cost?

The price theory of war in action: Experimental demonstrations of the impacts of expected costs and valuable war aims

Conflict dynamics across space and time: Public opinion in the Korea and Vietnam Wars

Getting wartime information from over there to over here: News media and social networks209

Elite opinion formation and its electoral consequences

Conclusion: Wars, casualties, politics & policies.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-03887-7

1-009-03867-2

1-139-87166-8

OCLC:

1295272539