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Byers, Chelsea R. |
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2008-09-17T19:53:28Z |
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dc.date.available |
2008-09-17T19:53:28Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2006-06 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7307 |
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67 p. A THESIS Presented to the Department of Political Science and the Honors College of the University of Oregon, in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: SCA Archiv Byers 2006 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Congress and the executive support the continued development of ballistic missile defense systems. Since the Bush administration came into office in 2001, the United States has pulled out ofthe Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty and revamped research and development funding for this defense initiative, asking as much as 9 billion dollars per year. This thesis analyzes the strategic problems associated with the implementation ofthese systems and moving the United States from a deterrence-based nuclear posture to a defense-based one. It concludes with a statistical analysis of factors in each US Senator's background that might have influenced the probability of their voting against constraining the program in June 2004 using probit regression methodology. |
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en_US |
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University of Oregon |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Political Science, Honors College, B.A., 2006 |
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dc.title |
In defense of homeland, pork, or ideology? : a statistical analysis of congressional support for ballistic missile defense systems |
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Thesis |
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