Gangopadhyay, Partha; Elkanj, Nasser - In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 15 (2009) 1, pp. 2-2
We develop a model to examine regional, or geographical, allocation of defence spending in a nation, which is actuated by electoral motives of an incumbent government. We posit that the spatial impact of defence spending can be enormous as defence spending offers a host of local public goods to...