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Defense Spending and Unemployment Rates:

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1992
Abstract. Empirical evidence is provided, using vectorautoregressive techniques, that the employment impacts of defense spending are not equally distributed among racial and gender lines and across time. While increases in defense spending were generally found to be associated with increases in each of the unemployment rates, in the 1980s, it was ...
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Interests, Institutions, and Defense Spending

2020
Why do some governments spend more on their military than others? Leaders make spending decisions based in part on their desire to stay in office, and they may lose office through internal or external processes. Research traditionally focused on external threats as the main determinant of military spending, but internal dynamics are the primary cause ...
Justin Conrad, Mark Souva
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Fluctuations in Soviet Defense Spending

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1983
Despite our efforts to understand the dynamics of the arms race, we know little about the causes of short-term fluctuations in USSR military spending. This article attempts to shed new light on the domestic causes of these fluctuations, with special emphasis on Soviet economic conditions.
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Estimating the defense spending vote

Electoral Studies, 2015
Systematic evidence linking defense spending preferences to electoral choice has evaded scholars. This is surprising, given the relative importance of defense spending in terms of the overall budget, as well as the popular conception that increases in defense spending must be offset by decreases in social spending.
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Another look at the defense spending and development hypothesis

Defense Analysis, 1985
With the increasing pressure for developing countries to grow more rapidly, there is often a concomitant call for cuts in defense expenditures to finance new projects. Recently it has been suggested that defense spending may play a positive role rather than the usually perceived negative role in economic development.
Fredericksen, P.C., Looney, Robert E.
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Electoral Cycles and Defense Spending

Comparative Political Studies, 1988
This article compares the impact of electoral cycles on military spending in Israel and the United States. The analysis of the three major components of the Israeli military budget reveals that elections do influence military expenditures in Israel, though in a very different way than in the United States.
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Optimal Defense Spending

2001
Yoshio Niho, Masaoki Takeuchi
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Defense Spending

The Brookings Review, 1997
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Soviet Defense Spending

Comparative Economic Studies, 1998
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Defense Spending and Inequality

2020
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