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Description & Citation--Study No. 5809

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5809
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05809
 
Title:American Foreign Policy Officials Study, 1966
 
Principal Investigator(s):Bernard Mennis
 
Bibliographic Citation:Mennis, Bernard. AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY OFFICIALS STUDY, 1966 [Computer file]. Conducted by Bernard Mennis, University of Michigan. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05809
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains information on the personal background of 95 United States civilian and military officials involved in foreign policy and their attitudes toward aspects of the international political environment, United States foreign policy, and their own jobs in 1966. Respondents were asked questions about the most important political issues of their generation and their view of the structure of the world political arena, the major causes of war, the just-concluded bilateral agreement between the United States and Russia banning nuclear testing and further arms control, the role of the United Nations (UN) in world affairs, the usefulness of force, the greatest threat to American security, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization-controlled nuclear force, the primary foreign policy objective of the Soviet Union, the impact of the Cold War on American values, institutions, and ways of thinking, and American communists' eligibility for public office. Also elicited were respondents' attitudes toward non-aligned nations. Other variables provide personality scales measuring respondents' degree of dogmatism and rigidity. Demographic variables on respondents provide information on sex, race, nationality, education, religion, family, occupation, political party identification, self-perceived ideological leanings, and official status.
 
Subject Term(s):arms control, attitudes, biographical data, Cold War, foreign policy, government elites, international agreements, international relations, national security, opinions, policy making, political issues, United Nations, war, world politics
 
Geographic Coverage:United States, Global
 
Time Period:1966
 
Date(s) of Collection:1966
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:A total of 95 United States civilian and military officials involved in foreign policy in 1966.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-03
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: American Foreign Policy Officials Study, 1966
 

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