Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Gatlin, Douglas S.

Abstract

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 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.

Extent

95 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13800

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