The Power to Hurt, to be Hurt, and Public Support for War

This project is a follow-up to “The Power to Hurt and Public Support for War.”

Having established that individuals are responsive to the power to hurt, this project investigates how the power to hurt interacts with the power to be hurt. We do so by fielding a survey experiment that compares the ratio of enemy to friendly casualties.

This project introduces a new demonstrably optimal survey instrument, the k-nested binary search algorithm, to estimate individuals’ policy position on an unbounded issue space.