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DESPITE OR BECAUSE OF A DECADE OF RESEARCH THAT YIELDING CONFLICTING RESULTS, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT MILITARY COUPS OR REGIMES BROUGHT INTO POWER THROUGH COUPS HAVE AN IMPACT ON SUBSEQUENT MILITARY SPENDING REMAINS OPEN. PART OF THE ANALYTICAL PROBLEM MAY RESULT FROM ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MILITARY POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AS WELL AS LIMITATIONS OF RESEARCH DESIGN.

DESPITE OR BECAUSE OF A DECADE OF RESEARCH THAT YIELD CONFLICTING RESULTS, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT MILITARY COUPS OR REGIMES BROUGHT INTO POWER THROUGH COUPS HAVE AN IMPACT ON SUBSEQUENT MILITARY SPENDING REMAINS OPEN. A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE SUGGESTS THAT PART OF THE ANALYTICAL PROBLEM MAY RESULT FROM ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MILITARY POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR AS WELL AS VARIOUS LIMITATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSES OF CHANGE, AND THE USE OF EXCLUSIVELY CROSS-SECTIONAL OR LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH DESIGNS. IN ADDITION, SOME OF THE DISPARITY IN RESEARCH FINDINGS MAY RESULT FROM THE RELIANCE ON DIFFERENT INDICATORS-BOTH DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT-BY A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ANALYSTS. IN RESPONSE TO THESE POTENTIAL TECHNICAL PROBLEMS, THIS ANALYSIS OF MILITARY SPENDING PATTERNS IN 66 LESS-DEVELOPED STATES APPLIES A GLS ROUTINE, POOLING CROSS-SECTIONAL AND TIME-SERIES DATA, TO THE 1967-1976 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO MEASURES OF MILITARY SPENDING AND SEVERAL PREDICTOR VARIABLES, INCLUDING REGIME TYPE, COUP OCCURRENCES, LEVEL OF CONFLICT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ARMS IMPORTS, AND PREVIOUS MILITARY SPENDING. ALTHOUGH THE EMPIRICAL OUTCOME VARIES ACCORDING TO WHICH DEPENDENT VARIABLE IS EXAMINED, WE FIND, IN GENERAL, THAT INFORMATION ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND TIMING OF REGIME TYPES-MILITARY, CIVILIAN, AND MIXED-AND SUCCESSFUL MILITARY COUPS IS NOT VERY HELPFUL IN PREDICTING POST-COUP MILITARY SPENDING POLICIES. THIS FINDING SUGGESTS, IN TURN, THAT THE CRUCIAL PRESUMPTION PY: 1982

THIS ARTICLE PROBES THE ELECTORAL SUPPORT ENJOYED BY THE THATCHER GOVERNMENT. IT USES 1983 NATIONAL SURVEY DATA TO DELINEATE THE DISTRIBUTION, DIMENSIONS AND CORRELATES OF POLITICALECONOMIC BELIEFS CENTRAL TO THE IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE THAT HAS DOMINATED BRITISH POLITICS UNDER "THATCHERISM". THE ANALYSIS EXAMINES VOTERS VIEWS ON GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO MANAGE THE MACROECONOMY AND ACHIEVE VARIOUS POLICY OBJECTIVES. THE RESULTS SUGGEST LIMITS TO MRS. THATCHER'S NEO-LIBERAL IDEOLOGICAL APPEAL. BELIEFS THAT GOVERNMENT CAN OPERATE EFFECTIVELY IN A BROAD RANGE OF POLICY AREAS REMAIN WIDESPREAD. WHETHER MRS. THATCHER WILL ACHIEVE GREATER SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE IN REORIENTING PUBLIC THINKING ABOUT THE PROPER ROLE OF GOVERNMENT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.