Public opinion and foreign policy revisited: a Latin American perspective

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Mouron, Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Conhecimento político internacional; Efeitos de enquadramento; Foreign policy; Framing effects; International political knowledge; Opinião pública; Política externa; Public opinion; Survey experiments; Surveys experimentais
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-10042018-143030/

This thesis seeks to be a contribution to a broader debate on how public opinion builds up its perceptions on foreign policy and foreign affairs. Its two main objectives are to examine: (a) which are the determinants that explain public opinion knowledge on foreign affairs; and (b) whether public opinion is sensitive to framing effects on this issue. The analysis was done by mixing quantitative methods and survey experiments, while its novelty is that brings unprecedent evidence from Latin America. The main findings of the thesis are two-fold. On the one hand, Latin American public opinion knowledge on foreign affairs is low. In this regard, both traditional individual variables and contextual ones, namely the size of the city, are useful to predict a person\'s knowledge. On the other, public opinion perceptions regarding foreign policy, either presented on a general or specific way, are sensitive to framing effects.