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Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access originally published online on June 2, 2009
Public Opinion Quarterly 2009 73(2):379-384; doi:10.1093/poq/nfp024
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The Draft Lottery and Attitudes Towards the Vietnam War

Daniel E. Bergan

Address correspondence to Daniel E. Bergan; e-mail: bergan{at}msu.edu.

The most striking and theoretically anomalous finding of previous research on self-interest and attitudes is the absence of a self-interest motive in support for the Vietnam War. This research note reconsiders this result using a panel survey of university students collected before and after the first Vietnam draft lottery. These data are unique because they allow the unbiased estimation of the effect of self-interest on attitudes toward the war. I find that, contrary to previous results, self-interest had a substantial impact on support for the war.

DANIEL E. BERGAN is the Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Information with the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, 468 Communication Arts and Sciences Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1212, USA. The author would like to thank Greg Huber and three anonymous reviewers for comments that greatly improved this paper. The author would also like to thank Charles Longino for discussing his dataset. All mistakes are the author's.


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