Accession Number:

AD0769825

Title:

Investigation of Dimensions of Perception of United States Senators on Defense Oriented Roll-Call Votes.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Rankin,Charles Michael

Report Date:

1973-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

91.0

Abstract:

A somewhat new approach to the analysis of defense issues in the United States Senate was developed in this thesis. The Relative Agreement statistic of Brams and OLeary was used to obtain similarity observations between twenty Senate defense votes for both 1969-70 and 1971. These similarity observations were then used as input data to KYST, a multidimensional scaling computer program. The scaling solutions resulting from KYST showed that the most important dimensions in explaining pro-defense voting were non-partisanpartisan and foreign policydomestic policy. By using the pro-defense proportion of the vote as the dependent variable and coordinates from the two-dimensional solution as the independent variables, a regression model was obtained for predicting pro-defense vote. Modified author abstract

Descriptors:

• LEGISLATION
• THESES

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE