Shibley Telhami Shares Poll Findings on Americans' Opinions on the U.S. Defending Human Rights

Shibley Telhami, a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics and the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, recently shared additional insights from the February 2024 Critical Issues Poll in an article for Brookings.

Findings from the poll—fielded January 29-February 5, 2024 among 1,891 respondents using Ipsos’s probability-based KnowledgePanel—shed light on the degree to which Americans want the United States to make defending human rights and spreading democracy goals of American foreign policy.

“Two-thirds of Americans, including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents, favor making defending human rights a goal of American foreign policy—and a plurality feel the best way to do so is through working with international organizations. Yet Americans are ambivalent about the goal of spreading democracy globally… The findings are potentially consequential for shifting public perceptions of President Joe Biden and his administration,” Telhami writes.

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Published on Fri, May 17, 2024 - 9:58AM