How an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic Led to the U.S. War on Iraq |
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Authors: | Scott A Bonn |
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Institution: | (1) Sociology Department, Drew University, 36 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940, USA |
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Abstract: | Critics argue that the G.W. Bush administration deliberately misled the U.S. public about an Iraqi threat after 9/11 but empirical
evidence that presidential deception influenced public support for war has been lacking. An examination of presidential rhetoric
concerning Iraq in the U.S. media revealed that it changed in tone after 9/11, consistent with moral panic processes. Logistic
regression analysis of public opinion leading up to the war revealed that shifts in support for invasion directly mirrored
presidential rhetoric. The findings of this study suggest that the Bush administration engineered a moral panic over Iraq
with the support of the media. |
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