SGER: Public Responses to Terrorism

在2001年9月11日的恐怖袭击之后，美国人对恐怖主义行为的风险、影响和适当反应的理解是如何演变的？袭击发生后不久，我们在全国范围内进行了一次大规模的电话调查，调查美国人对袭击的反应，他们对未来恐怖袭击风险的看法，以及适当的国内和国际政策反应。该项目将包括对2001年秋天回应的人进行后续调查，以了解他们的观念、信仰和偏好在这一年中发生了怎样的变化。我们将使用2001年使用的一系列问题，以及探索由恐怖主义威胁引起的行为变化的新措施，来检验有关公众信仰和意见的稳定性、连贯性和相关性的假设。我们还将利用问题来了解反恐努力是否被视为与维护开放社会和保护个人自由等其他国家目标相容。研究结果将为关于公众舆论的性质和一致性的学术辩论提供信息，并为公众对旨在应对恐怖主义威胁的政策的支持提供重要见解。

How have Americans' understandings of the risks, implications and appropriate responses to acts of terrorism evolved in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? In the immediate wake of those attacks, we fielded a large nation-wide telephone survey that explored Americans' reactions to the strike, their perceptions of the risks of future terrorist attacks, and appropriate policy responses both domestically and internationally. This project will consist of a follow-up survey with those who responded in the fall of 2001 to learn how their perceptions, beliefs and preferences have changed over the intervening year. Using batteries of questions employed in 2001, and new measures that will explore changes in behavior induced by threats of terrorism, we will test hypotheses concerning the stability, coherence and relevance of public beliefs and opinions. We will also employ questions to understand whether anti-terrorism efforts are seen as compatible with other national objectives, such as maintenance of an open society and preservations of individual liberties. The results will both inform the scholarly debate on the nature and coherence of public opinion and provide important insights into public support for policies designed respond to terrorist threats.