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Consensus Lost? Domestic Politics and the “Crisis” in NATO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

William K. Domke ,
Richard C. Eichenberg  and
Catherine M. Kelleher
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World Politics , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , April 1987 , pp. 382 - 407
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1977

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2 Ibid., 243.

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10 In subsamples of this size, differences of about 15 percentage points are statistically significant.

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12 The most emphatic statement of this interpretation is DePorte (fn. 1, 1979).

13 As noted in fn. 10, caution is warranted when comparing very small subsamples. These differences, averaging about 10%, are not statistically significant. Nonetheless, the pattern shows up in other surveys as well, and the left-right distribution noted below is consistent.

14 This pattern is less true of France and the Netherlands, where there is good evidence of largely partisan cleavages complicated by a very skeptical successor generation.

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27 Percentages calculated from OECD figures (fn. 15), Table 9.