War with the Terrorists or Rebuilding a Nation in Need? : Dutch Public Opinion on Afghanistan : The Theory of the Principal Policy Objective Revisited

This article points to the need for a more complex understanding of the public's perception of the Principal Policy Objective (PPO) when it comes to citizens' attitudes toward foreign military interventions. In contrast to previous research, where one PPO has been linked to support either by experimental standards or survey practicality, this article uses a survey and a method which allow the analysis to account for conflicting PPOs and leaves the interpretation of the PPO to the individual respondent, increasing the validity of the results. This is done using a dataset based on a monthly surv... Mehr ...