American Diplomacy

American Diplomacy

Volume I, Number 2, 1996

 

Public Opinion on Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (Part II)—Table 6

Correlations Between Assessments of Promoting and Defending Human Rights in Other countries and Four Other Human Rights Goals in the 1980-1992 Foreign Policy Leadership Project Surveys

Correlations between the importance attached to the goal of Promoting and defending human rights in other countries and:
Year Spreading democracy abroad Improving standards of living Combatting world hunger Protecting the global environment
1980 .58 .58 .70 .56
1984 .46 .62 .78 .63
1988 .50 .61 .78 .55
1992 .62 .65 .75 .62
Coefficients are gamma.