Service Matters: The Influence of Military Service on Political Behavior, Ideology and Attitudes
Description:
The objective of this research is to explore the influence of military service on political behaviors and attitudes. Existing studies of the military have long recognized the existence of a predominantly conservative political ideology with a resulting propensity for strong Republican Party support within the military community, but have failed to explain the likely causal mechanism for this. Drawing on multiple sources of data from the 2008 Presidential election cycle, I utilized a descriptive…
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Date:
August 2010
Creator:
Johnson, Catherine L.