Congress and policy change: The case of Angola.

Title: Congress and policy change: The case of Angola.
Identifier: AAI9431370
identifier: 9431370
Creator: Speakman, June Sager.
Contributor: Adviser: John Mollenkopf
Date: 1994
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Political Science, General
Abstract: This dissertation is an analysis of congressional decision-making regarding Angola between 1975 and 1985. Using a levels-of-analysis approach, the author examines the environmental, institutional, and individual factors that contributed to the 1975 enactment of the Clark Amendment that prohibited U.S. assistance to anti-communist rebels in Angola. The second half of the dissertation is analysis of how changes in these factors--the international context, presidential activity, interest group pressures, partisan and ideological balance in Congress, issue leadership, public opinion, media attention--during the decade created the conditions that made policy reversal possible, in the form of the 1985 repeal of the Clark Amendment.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.