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Procuring the Cross of Iron : = The Effect of Congressional Approval on the U.S. Defense Budget.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Procuring the Cross of Iron :/
Reminder of title:	The Effect of Congressional Approval on the U.S. Defense Budget.
Author:	Higginbotham, Chris.
Description:	1 online resource (201 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Public policy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355343083

Procuring the Cross of Iron : = The Effect of Congressional Approval on the U.S. Defense Budget.
Higginbotham, Chris.

Procuring the Cross of Iron :The Effect of Congressional Approval on the U.S. Defense Budget. - 1 online resource (201 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Understanding why we spend is an essential step in controlling and justifying the U.S. defense budget. Renewed study may grant perspective on the journey U.S. defense spending has taken over the last 40 years, and provide clues to what lies ahead. This dissertation examines the impact of congressional approval on U.S. defense spending through time series analysis of the period 1970--2015. The interaction between public approval and congressional action is viewed through the lens of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (Jones, 2001) and is a departure from classical incrementalism (Key, 1940; Wildavsky, 1964, 1975, 2004) traditionally associated with budgets. Other key drivers, such as public opinion on the sufficiency of the defense budget, the presence of war and economic health are included in the model to isolate causation and interaction, but the focus is on the significant impact of congressional approval to punctuations in defense spending both during and outside periods of war and severe economic turmoil.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355343083Subjects--Topical Terms:

1002398
Public policy.
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554714
Electronic books.

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