SSP Wednesday Seminar with speaker Lindsay Cohn, US Naval War College.

We know a fair amount about what shapes US public attitudes towards military operations abroad, but very little about attitudes toward the domestic use of the military. Recent events have raised questions about whether the US public perceives differences among various state coercive actors, and how they feel about their domestic deployment. Dr. Cohn will present on recent research, in which she conducted a conjoint survey experiment, varying the actor (police, national guard, military), the emergency situation, the type of intervention, and whether the coercive actor is armed or not.