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  title info:
    title: Cross-cultural effects of casualties on foreign policy decision making
    sub title: South Korea and the United States
  name:
    name part: Park, Nam Tae.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Geva, Nehemia
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: It is well accepted that casualties incurred as a result of interstate militarized disputes have a significant influence on domestic public opinion and ultimately on foreign policy decision making (FPDM). Although scholars have studied the influence of casualties on FPDM, the major line of research ignores the possibility that different cultural settings may generate different levels of tolerance for human casualties and thereby differentially mediate public reactions. Therefore, I attempt to clarify the impact of cultural factors on interpretation and perception of human casualties in international conflicts by the general public and their implications on consequent foreign policy choices. I specifically examine two socio-cultural factors in the context of two culturally different states, South Korea and the United States. The two cultural factors are (1) the level of individualism vs. collectivism, and (2) the degree of ambiguity intolerance. I argue that the two factors will possibly affect the public's tolerance of human casualties. I expect that they will affect both the process by which members of the two cultures make decisions and their choices. Cross-national experimental design (in South Korea and the United States) and a comparative case study were employed. Regarding the decision choice, I found that the expected number of casualties were considered in different ways by American students and Korean students. Different from my expectation, the Korean students perceived the expected number of casualties more negatively than the American students. With regard to the process of decision making, the empirical results support the hypotheses that the different levels of intolerance of ambiguity, a cultural factor, will have an impact on the decision process. Specifically, Korean students, who are less tolerant of ambiguity, needed less information to reach a final decision than did American students. Overall, although the results did not completely support cult…
  note: by Nam Tae Park.
  note: "Major Subject: Political Science"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2007 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1964
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major political science
  subject:
    topic: Cross-cultural effects
  subject:
    topic: Casualties
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1964
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100428
    record change date: 20151201150153.0
    record identifier: in00002580810