Experimental research finds no elite-public gap in how human rights are weighed against arms export benefits

In a new article in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Tobias Risse and Christoph Valentin Steinert use findings from four survey experiments among citizens and parliamentarians in the UK and Germany to show that when forming opinions on arms exports, politicians are not more likely than citizens to trade human rights for the political and economic benefits of the trade. Find the full article…