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DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF SENATORS' ROLL-CALL VOTING POSITIONS ON FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION, 1947-1974
Title
DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF SENATORS' ROLL-CALL VOTING POSITIONS ON FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION, 1947-1974.
Creator
DEMACK, GARY CLARK., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
Political scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in...
Show morePolitical scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in several sessions of the Congresses studied here, none of them remain statistically significant throughout the eight sessions of the four Congresses studied. Even where significant relationships have been hypothesized here on the basis of past research findings, findings from the present study do not altogether support earlier findings. In particular, service on the Foreign Relations Committee ceases to be a significant determinant in later sessions and representing Eastern states is the strongest regional determinant.
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Date Issued
1976
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13800
Subject Headings
Legislators--United States, Economic assistance--Law and legislation, Voting
Format
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