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This study examines in a comparative foreign policy framework the relationship between bilateral foreign aid allocations and pairwise voting agreements between developed and developing nations in the UN General Assembly. The foreign aid donors considered include the United States, the Soviet "bloc," and the twelve other UN members of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. Two different measures of aid allocations in two three-year periods (1962–1964 and 1965–1967) are correlated with two different measures of the percentage of agreements in the UN between each aid donor and its aid recipients, with both indices calculated on the basis of all roll calls taken in the 1963 and 1966 General Assemblies.In general, the results of the analysis were found to be consistent with the hypothesized positive association between aid and votes only in the case of the United States. For many of the remaining donors the association was found to be negative rather than positive, suggesting either that enemies are rewarded more than friends, or, alternatively, that there is little relationship of substantive interest between aid and votes for most donor countries. Even in the case of the U.S., however, which of the two variables should be considered a cause and which a consequence remains unresolved.

Elites & masses (N = 1,513 & 330 survey Rs, respectively) are found to have similar foreign policy belief systems, defined by 2 distinct attitude dimensions, cooperative & militant internationalism. However, elites are located predominantly in the internationalist & accommodationist quadrants of the opinion typology defined by the bidimensional attitude structure. The mass, on the other hand, is more evenly distributed among the 4 categories, with a higher proportion in the hardline & isolationist quadrants. An examination of the background characteristics & attentiveness of Rs indicates that the differences between elites & masses inhere in the occupancy of leadership roles. 8 Tables, 1 Figure, 45 References. Modified HA.