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Questions raised by the US Information Agency surveys in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Surveys conducted by the US Information Agency (USIA) in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, & El Salvador, as reported in the press, resulted in findings strongly supportive of President Reagan's foreign policy objectives. Despite Freedom of Information requests, the technical reports, data sets, & information about sampling were not released. Based on the codebook, the questionnaire, & the frequency distributions for each item, which were provided, the data cannot be entirely discounted. Problems in the research design included lack of rural respondents, inclusion only of those with at least seven years of schooling, & lack of opportunity in multiple choice questions to express criticism of the US. However, none of the problems identified render the data totally unworthy of attention & credibility. 3 References. A. Waters

In recent studies by historians and political scientists there has been increasing attention paid to the question of executive impact on the budgetary process in Latin America. Wilkie's prize-winning research into the broad outlines of budgetary discretion in Revolutionary Mexico has both stimulated controversy and redoubled efforts to employ budgetary data productively in assessing the impact of who governs upon how people are governed.