An Application of Content Analysis to Determine Congressional Behavior in Relation to the Defense Budget

Abstract

Congress exercises its power over the federal purse and the Defense Budget through its budgetary process. This thesis is part of a continuing effort to analyze the changing role of Congress in Defense policy-making. The fiscal/programmatic orientation of various Congressional committees in relation to the Procurement and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation portions of the Defense Budget is determined through use of the research technique - Content Analysis. The period of analysis includes fiscal years 1976 and 1977, the first two years to be affected by the new Congressional budgetary process prescribed by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Individual committee decisions and comments were recorded and categorized as fiscal or programmatic. It was concluded that committee decisions concerning the Defense Budget were fairly equally divided between a fiscal and programmatic orientation. An extensive background section and description of Content Analysis introduces the specific methodology used in this analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041171

Entities

People

  • Robert T. Camp

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Budgets
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Political Science
  • Procurement
  • Public Administration
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Systems Analysis and Design