Understanding Support for Foreign Economic Aid and Assistance Programs

该项目将衡量公众对针对人道主义问题的外国经济援助计划的支持，将这种支持与公众对国内人道主义援助的支持进行对比，并建立一个框架，模拟后冷战时代公众的外交政策信念。 这是第一个直接评估公众对国内外援助计划态度差异的研究。这项研究将使我们更深入地了解美国人如何看待外交政策。 一个计算机辅助的电话调查的代表性横截面的500名美国成年人将进行实证测量和测试初步的假设。 该调查将衡量一系列具体的价值观和信仰，包括人道主义、民族中心主义和对合作国际主义的支持。 * * *

The project will measure public support for foreign economic assistance programs directed toward humanitarian concerns, contrast this support with public support for domestic humanitarian aid, and to build a framework modeling the public's foreign policy beliefs in the Post-Cold War era. This is the first study to directly assess differences in public attitudes toward domestic and foreign assistance program. This study will move us toward a more solid understanding of how Americans think about foreign policy. A computer-assisted telephone survey of a representative cross section of 500 American adults will be conducted to empirically measure and test preliminary hypotheses. The survey will measure a range of specific values and beliefs including humanitarianism, ethnocentrism, and support for cooperative internationalism. * * *