Book contents
- Costly Calculations
- Costly Calculations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Price Theory of War
- 3 Calculating War’s Price: What’s It Worth, and How Much Will It Cost?
- 4 The Price Theory of War in Action: Experimental Demonstrations of the Impacts of Expected Costs and Valuable War Aims
- 5 Conflict Dynamics across Space and Time: Public Opinion in the Korean and Vietnam Wars
- 6 Getting Wartime Information from Over-There to Over-Here: News Media and Social Networks
- 7 Elite Opinion Formation and Its Electoral Consequences
- Extending Our Theory to Elected Officials
- How Do Senate Candidates Choose Their Positions?
- Data and Variables – Position-Taking
- Results on Position-Taking
- Summary: Positions
- Case Study on the Electoral Consequences of War Casualties and Elite Positions: Iraq and the 2006 Election
- Conclusion
- Appendix 7.1 Control/demographic variable definitions for .
- 8 Conclusion: Wars, Casualties, Politics, and Policies
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 7.1 - Control/demographic variable definitions for .
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
Book contents
- Costly Calculations
- Costly Calculations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Price Theory of War
- 3 Calculating War’s Price: What’s It Worth, and How Much Will It Cost?
- 4 The Price Theory of War in Action: Experimental Demonstrations of the Impacts of Expected Costs and Valuable War Aims
- 5 Conflict Dynamics across Space and Time: Public Opinion in the Korean and Vietnam Wars
- 6 Getting Wartime Information from Over-There to Over-Here: News Media and Social Networks
- 7 Elite Opinion Formation and Its Electoral Consequences
- Extending Our Theory to Elected Officials
- How Do Senate Candidates Choose Their Positions?
- Data and Variables – Position-Taking
- Results on Position-Taking
- Summary: Positions
- Case Study on the Electoral Consequences of War Casualties and Elite Positions: Iraq and the 2006 Election
- Conclusion
- Appendix 7.1 Control/demographic variable definitions for .
- 8 Conclusion: Wars, Casualties, Politics, and Policies
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Costly CalculationsA Theory of War, Casualties, and Politics, pp. 219 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021