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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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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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Defense Spending: Key To California's Growth

Western Political Quarterly, 1962
has become so overwhelming that it is difficult for even the interested layman to comprehend its economic significance. From 1950 to 1959, procurement actions1 by the Department of Defense (DOD) reached the staggering figure of $228 billion. This was an increase in volume of defense expenditures of 246 per cent, whereas during the same period the ...
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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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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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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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On Economic Justifications of Bioterrorism Defense Spending

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
*The opinions contained in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the American Medical Association.
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Nato, Social and Defense Spending, and Coalitions

Western Political Quarterly, 1990
his paper investigates three related questions. First, are there tradeoffs between security and social needs in different types of states? Second, do changes in the governments of these states lead to changes in their defense budgets? And third, do changes in the size of the American defense budget affect these states differently?
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Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data

Journal of Peace Research
Theoretical and empirical research on causes and consequences of defense spending is plentiful. Most of this research uses ‘top line’ defense spending data, either as a share of GDP or as a raw monetary figure. Empirical research has been limited, however, by the ‘blunt’ nature of this data, which does not help to explain what countries are spending on.
Jordan Becker, Seth Benson, J Paul Dunne, Edmund Malesky   +3 more
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Soviet defense spending: The Spartan analogy

Comparative Strategy, 1990
Abstract This essay was prompted by the comparison between the Soviet Union and ancient Sparta recently made by economists and Sovietologists. Amid growing dissatisfaction with recent efforts to model the Soviet economy and its defense sector, Sparta is invoked as a model of a state in which politics takes precedence over economics, in a manner not ...
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