Official government statistics on the "mission-distribution" ofU.S. R&D investment are based on the assumption that only the governmentsponsors military R&D. In this paper we advance and test thealternative hypothesis, that a significant share of privately-financedindustrial R&D is military in...

A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious factions only by creating a relatively strong army. In weakly-institutionalized polities this...

We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...