Jr, Karl DeRouen; Heo, Uk - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 18 (2001) 2, pp. 251-267
We analyze the politics of the U.S. defense budget from 1953 to 1992. Institutional factors make it impractical for the president to use aggregate defense spending politically. For this reason, we focus on defense prime contract awards (PCA) because they are removed from public opinion, do not...