Date of Project
3-19-2026
Document Type
Honors Thesis
School Name
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Political Science
Major Advisor
Dr. Aaron Hoffman
Second Advisor
Dr. Fedja Buric
Abstract
This is a study of the relationship between U.S. Foreign Aid and its effects on a receiving nation’s voting coincidence, with voting coincidence measuring how often a nation votes the same as the U.S. in the UN General Assembly. In this study the dependent variable is voting coincidence in the UN General Assembly. The primary independent variable is the average amount of foreign aid UN nations have received from the U.S. in 2017-2023. With several other more minor independent variables including average GDP of nations from 2017-2023, the average population of a nation from 2017-2023, whether a nation is a democracy, and United Nations region. For analysis, I used the SPSS statistical analysis program and I expect to find that nations that receive more aid from the U.S. will be more likely to vote on the same side as the U.S. in the UN General Assembly.
Recommended Citation
Young, Brody, "U.S. Foreign Aid’s Effects on UN Voting Patterns from Years 2017-2023" (2026). Undergraduate Theses. 233.
https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/ugrad_theses/233
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