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Robert Ralston

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2012
Gender, Security, and ConflictDefense, Military, and Policy StudiesSocial and Intergroup PsychologyInternational Relations and Foreign PolicyMilitary History and Strategy

Publications

36

Citations

281

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

15

Publishing since 2012

Research summary
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Robert Ralston studies civil-military relations, public opinion about the military, and how citizens and soldiers think about national security, patriotism, and international decline. His work combines survey research and public opinion analysis to examine topics like military service motivations, political polarization around defense policy, and perceptions of diversity and extremism within armed forces. This research is aimed at understanding how democratic publics relate to their militaries and to broader questions of national power and identity.

Civil-military relationsPublic opinion on defense and security policyMilitary service and citizenshipPolitical polarization and national declineDiversity and extremism in armed forces

Publication output peaked around 2020 with a burst of activity, then settled into a steadier, more moderate pace of about 2-3 papers per year through 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 4 publications192020: 8 publications8202021: 3 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Armed Forces & Society×4
  • Perspectives on Politics×3
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×3
  • Harvard Dataverse×2
  • International Studies Quarterly×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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