How does the oil wealth of a potential target state affect the likelihood of the US public favoring the use of military force? Recent studies suggest that public opinion on foreign policy is responsive to the core characteristics of target states, such as regime type and majority religion. This article advances this research agenda by examining the effects of intra-regime heterogeneity in respect of an important characteristic of target states: their oil wealth. To examine the relationship between oil wealth and US public opinion on war, we fielded a conjoint experiment with US citizens. Respondents chose between hypothetical pairs of target states that varied across seven different intra-regime characteristics. We found that that the oil wealth of a target exerts a statistically significant (albeit small) effect on public support for the use of force, independent of the effects of other regime characteristics.

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石油财富和美国公众对战争的支持

潜在目标国家的石油财富如何影响美国公众偏爱使用军事力量的可能性？最近的研究表明，公众对外交政策的看法是针对目标国家的核心特征的，例如政权类型和多数宗教。本文通过考察政权内部异质性对目标国家的一个重要特征：其石油财富的影响，来推进这一研究议程。为了考察石油财富与美国公众对战争的看法之间的关系，我们与美国公民进行了联合试验。受访者在假设的目标状态对之间进行选择，目标状态在七个不同的内部域特征之间变化。