Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1537-5943|65|2|358-375
ISSN： 0003-0554
Source： American Political Science Review, Vol.65, Iss.2, 1971-06, pp. : 358-375
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Abstract
In an examination of responses to public opinion poll questions designed to assess the degree of generalized support for the wars in Korea and Vietnam, popular support for the two wars was found to follow highly similar patterns. Support was high initially but declined as a logarithmic function of American casualties, a function remarkably similar for both wars. While support for the war in Vietnam did finally drop below those levels found during the Korean War, it did so only after the fighting had gone on considerably longer and only after American casualties had greatly surpassed those of the earlier war. These trends seem to have been fairly impervious to particular events in either of the wars.
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