dc.contributor.advisor	John, McCauley
dc.contributor.author	Stanley, J.T.
dc.contributor.department	Government and Politics	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-16T15:57:20Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-16T15:57:20Z
dc.date.issued	2018-02-15
dc.description	Hello I had reached out to Patti Cossard about my delayed letter of support and she said to submit my project even though my Letter of Support will come next week.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	As the presence of extremist organizations expand into the Sahel, so does the projection of U.S. military power. The United States’ most recent and poignant example of intelligence failure was the belief that the Iraqi population would treat the invading force of 2003 as liberators. Future events in Mali will have an outsized effect on the region. The receptiveness of Malians toward Western military presence and the ability to ascertain that information are important to intelligence, military, and diplomatic officials. In this study, I explore the effect that an interviewer, residing in either an urban or rural area, has on a subject’s receptiveness to Western military presence. I argue that rural Malians, when interviewed by urban Malians, will be less favorable to Western military presence than if they were interviewed by a fellow rural Malian. The argument also supports the vice versa—urban Malians will be more open to Western military presence when interviewed by rural Malians, versus another urban Malian. I used the sixth installment of Afrobarometer data, specific to Mali, to conduct this study. The results revealed a relationship that was inverse to my hypothesis. The findings were not statistically significant under the traditional standard, but were close enough to warrant further research and have implications.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2Z31NQ7D
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/20504
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	Mali Urban Rural Western Military Presence Enumerator Effect	en_US
dc.title	The intersection of urban-rural divisions and the enumerator effect on Malian opinions of Western military presence	en_US
dc.type	Research paper	en_US

The intersection of urban-rural divisions and the enumerator effect on Malian opinions of Western military presence

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