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Economic Interests and Public Support for American Foreign Policy
Unformatted Document Text:  Economic Interests and Public Support for American Foreign Policy Abstract This paper evaluates the effect of economic interests on public support for American global activism. Those who were relatively well-positioned to benefit from the American-supported postwar international order should be more likely to support it. An analysis of American National Election Study data on support for isolationism since 1956 supports this line of argument. Individual self-interest is probably the most important pathway through which the international economy has influenced public opinion. However, the aggregate effects of exports and imports on respondents' home states, as well as the benefits their states receive from American military spending, have also made a difference. Benjamin O. Fordham Associate Professor Department of Political Science Binghamton University (SUNY) P. O. Box 6000 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 ## email not listed ## I would like to thank Michael A. Bailey and Matthew Baum for their comments on this paper. Any errors and omissions contained in this paper are solely the responsibility of the author.

Authors: Fordham, Benjamin.
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Economic Interests and Public Support for American Foreign Policy
Abstract
This paper evaluates the effect of economic interests on public support for American
global activism. Those who were relatively well-positioned to benefit from the
American-supported postwar international order should be more likely to support it. An
analysis of American National Election Study data on support for isolationism since 1956
supports this line of argument. Individual self-interest is probably the most important
pathway through which the international economy has influenced public opinion.
However, the aggregate effects of exports and imports on respondents' home states, as
well as the benefits their states receive from American military spending, have also made
a difference.




Benjamin O. Fordham
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
## email not listed ##



I would like to thank Michael A. Bailey and Matthew Baum for their comments on this
paper. Any errors and omissions contained in this paper are solely the responsibility of
the author.


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