War and Politics: How and Why Wars Affect Individual Level Attitudes and Behaviors

• In Event: Attitudes and Conflict

Brief Overview

Do war-related casualties affect political attitudes and behavior? Using public opinion voting data from Israel, we find that the public lowers its support for incumbents, and that local military deaths increase support for the opposition.

Authors

• Anna Getmansky, London School of Economics

• Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin - Madison