Military Policy as an Arena of Public Policy
This paper continues and builds on efforts to center the study of national security policy as a field in American and comparative politics and public policy. The traditional division of labor that kept national security policy predominantly the province and concern of IR has eroded, especially since the end of the Cold War, but remains a significant barrier to scholarship and new insights. In some ways the aftermath of 9/11 has reinforced the old separations. In general Americanists and comparativists do not study military policy and IR scholars rarely build their studies of national security around theories of public policy. This paper draws from the various literatures on public policy to explicate the characteristics of national security/military policy as a policy arena. Looking at such things as the distribution of costs and benefits, organization of interests and social forces, issue structure, bureaucratic formation, constitutional status, spatial policy effects, and national position, I show that military policy is both more similar to the politics of domestic policies than some theories from IR imagine and yet also critically different from some arenas of domestic policy in the ways that can inform and refine comparative/Americanist theories of public policy. This paper refines and expands the theoretical argument from my book, “Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama” (Johns Hopkins, 2010)
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2010
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Authors: | Wirls, Daniel |
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[2010]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Wirtschaftspolitik | Economic policy | Rüstungspolitik | Arms policy | Militär | Armed forces | Militärausgaben | Military expenditure |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (28 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 16, 2010 erstellt |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140774
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