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How is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the U.S. China Field

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title How is the American Foreign Policy Establishment Structured? A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of the U.S. China Field
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SELEPV
 
Creator Ruley, Garrett
McCourt, David
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Challenging visions of the U.S. national security “Establishment” as either hamstrung by ideological homogeneity bordering on groupthink, or riven by irreconcilable party political divisions, we deploy Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to uncover empirically the structure of the China segment of the U.S. national security community. MCA—a form of geometric data analysis—finds latent structures in categorical datasets. Using an original dataset of organizations with a strong presence on China issues, we show that the China organizational field is far from homogenous, but is split less between Left and right than over degree of political engagement, separating older think tanks and cultural organizations from business-focused research and consulting firms, and academic/research institutions from outside politically-oriented groups located primarily within the Beltway. We explore our findings using the Trump and Obama administrations’ choice of locations to give speeches and remarks on U.S-China relations.
 
Subject Social Sciences
U.S. Foreign Policy
The Establishment
China
Expertise
Multiple Correspondence Analysis
 
Contributor Ruley, Garrett