15:00 - 16:40
P9-S234
Room: 1A.03
Chair/s:
Kyle Lohse Marquardt
Discussant/s:
Afiq bin Oslan
Moral norms and public opinion on interstate war
P9-S234-2
Presented by: Eric Gabo Nilsen
Eric Gabo NilsenTore Wig
University of Oslo, Departement of Political Science
What role do moral norms play in citizen attitudes towards governments use of military force? Most work on the morality-war link is either non-experimental or squarely focused on moral values rather than norms. We address this gap by developing a concept of moral norms concerning interstate war. Following behavioral psychology work on norms, we conceptualize moral norms about war as second-order expectations about when other members of society find war normatively appropriate. We present a survey-experimental framework to measure moral norms about war and gauge the effect of moral norms on support for war in different contexts.
Keywords: moral norms, war, military, experiment, attitudes

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