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Public Opinion on Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (Part II)—Table 8
Assessment by U.S. Opinion Leaders of Promoting and Defending Human Rights as a U.S. Foreign Policy Goal, FPLP Surveys
[% Very important]
| 1980 [N=2.502] |
1984 [N=2.515] |
1988 [N=2.226] |
1992 [N=2.312] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents | 27 | 33 | 39 | 38 | ||
| By party: | ||||||
| Republicans | 15 | 16 | 25 | 25 | ||
| Democrats | 36 | 47 | 53 | 52 | ||
| Independents | 26 | 35 | 36 | 35 | ||
| By ideology: | ||||||
| Very conservative | 14 | 10 | 21 | 17 | ||
| Somewhat conservative | 17 | 17 | 24 | 22 | ||
| Moderate | 26 | 30 | 36 | 38 | ||
| Somewhat liberal | 41 | 53 | 55 | 52 | ||
| Very liberal | 48 | 61 | 67 | 70 | ||
| By foreign policy orientation: | ||||||
| Hard-liners | 6 | 9 | 16 | 6 | ||
| Isolationists | 5 | 7 | 15 | 6 | ||
| Internationalists | 29 | 29 | 37 | 37 | ||
| Accommodationists | 38 | 47 | 51 | 48 | ||
| By domestic policy orientation: | ||||||
| Conservatives | NA* | 13 | 19 | 18 | ||
| Libertarians | NA | 23 | 33 | 40 | ||
| Populists | NA | 28 | 31 | 33 | ||
| Liberals | NA | 51 | 55 | 52 | ||
*NA = Questions used to develop the domestic policy orientation scale not asked.