{"id":15795,"date":"2017-10-17T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2017-10-15T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T15:49:39","slug":"american-politicians-were-more-likely-to-vote-for-war-if-they-didnt-have-draft-age-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/american-politicians-were-more-likely-to-vote-for-war-if-they-didnt-have-draft-age-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"American Politicians Were More Likely To Vote For War If They Didn\u2019t Have Draft Age Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1316_AmericanPol1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zaid Jilani covered a study on voting patterns in Congress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States employed a draft in four conflicts: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam war.<\/li>\n<li>A study found that if members of Congress had draft-age sons they were up to 17% less likely to vote as &#8220;hawks&#8221; \u2013 those more willing to risk war.<\/li>\n<li>Legislators that only had daughters of a similar age were more likely to be hawkish.<\/li>\n<li>The observed relationship was robust \u2013 as strong as 70% of the &#8220;party line&#8221; effect \u2013 where legislators are more likely to vote for a policy if it comes from a President from their own party.<\/li>\n<li>There are benefits to suing for peace \u2013 legislators that had draft-age sons were more likely to get re-elected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/10\/11\/congress-war-hawkish-policies-study\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaid Jilani covered a study on voting patterns in Congress: The United States employed a draft in four conflicts: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam war. A study found that if members of Congress had draft-age sons they were up to 17% less likely to vote as &#8220;hawks&#8221; \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1316_AmericanPol1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15810,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/15810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}