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The Independence Of Foreign Affairs And Importance Of Social Issues In The Political Attitudes Of Olivet Nazarene University Students, 2010-2013, David Claborn, Lindsey Tobias
The Independence Of Foreign Affairs And Importance Of Social Issues In The Political Attitudes Of Olivet Nazarene University Students, 2010-2013, David Claborn, Lindsey Tobias
Faculty Scholarship – Political Science
This paper maps people’s politics onto three axes to see how those axes interrelate. 617 Midwestern faith-based university students answered 10 questions on social issues, 12 questions on economic issues, and 11 questions on foreign affairs. This project is specifically interested in knowing if the social and economic answers explain the foreign affairs answers. The biggest conclusion drawn is how little they do. One’s social and economic attitudes predict 5.5% of one’s foreign affairs. We can also conclude that social attitudes of these students drive party identification much more than economic or foreign affairs as students identify as Republican four-to-one, …
If You Can't Join 'Em, Don't : Untangling Attitudes On Social, Economic And Foreign Issues By Graphing Them, David Claborn, Lindsey Tobias
If You Can't Join 'Em, Don't : Untangling Attitudes On Social, Economic And Foreign Issues By Graphing Them, David Claborn, Lindsey Tobias
Faculty Scholarship – Political Science
“Are you politically left or right?” Students of politics cringe at how reductionist a simple political spectrum is. This is why early on in politics classes students learn how to expand the one dimension to two. Attitudes on social and economic regulation can show students the inconsistencies of Republicans and Democrats, and introduce Libertarians and Communitarians as consistent counterparts. What comes about when we add a foreign affairs axis to the social and economic regulation axes? This project adds that foreign affairs axis to our conventional 2-D graph, thus making a 3-D cube of political attitudes. We then find that …