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Getting Money to Fight : Hypothesizing War Finance

Cappella, Rosella Marie - 2011

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Defense in Hard Times : Budget Pressure, High Demand, and Defense Transformation in the Obama Administration

Came, Tim - 2010

The Obama Administration's unprecedented retention of Bush Secretary of Defense Robert Gates paved the way for dramatic cuts to defense programs in the first few months of the Administration. This paper analyzes the process of developing and presenting the revised defense budget for Fiscal Year...

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The Global Financial Crisis and National Defense Spending : The Cases of Israel, Taiwan, and the United States

Sorenson, David - 2010

While the global economy suffered one of its worst declines in modern history, many countries actually increased their defense budgets. The U.S dramatically increased its military spending between 2007 and 2009, and the Obama administration plans large increases to follow. The State of Israel...

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Military Policy as an Arena of Public Policy

Wirls, Daniel - 2010

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...

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Curses and Conditionality : Do Oil and Aid Affect Democratization Differently?

Wright, Joseph - 2011

empirical analysis employs data on transitions to democracy from non-democracy to examine how aid and oil affect democratization …

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Democracy, Development, and Armed Conflict

Hegre, Haavard - 2010

development and democracy. Low-income democracies are at least as conflict-prone as low-income non-democracies, but high …

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Voting Power in Multi-Party Democracies : Evidence from a Model of Electoral Targeting for Income, Gender, Age and Education Groups in 15 European Democracies

Idema, Timo - 2010

This paper develops a model of electoral targeting in multi-party systems. Seat-share maximizing parties can use policy transfers to win votes by 1) converting undecided voters, 2) mobilizing loyal supporters, or 3) lowering the turn-out of voters loyal to other parties. The model allows for the...

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Disenchanted Workers, Selective Abstention and the Electoral Defeat of Social Democracy in Germany

Elff, Martin - 2010

The Bundestag elections of 2009 meant a crushing defeat for the German social democrats. Never before had a party faced losses at such a high percentage in post-war Germany. The paper argues that these losses were not incurred at the margin but at the core of the social democrats' traditional...

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Diffusing Liberal Market and Democratic Values : Assessing Turkey's 'Soft Power' in Transforming its Neighborhood

Kirisci, Kemal - 2010

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Democratizing During Hard Times : Germany’s Transition to Democracy in the Wake of the First World War

Peceny, Mark - 2010

distinguishes among cases based on the strength of local pro-democratic forces and of the international commitment to democracy … victorious liberal powers made almost no explicit effort to promote democracy in Germany. Instead, Germany's transition to … democracy in 1918-1919 reflected the weakening of Germany's authoritarian order through defeat in war and the contingent …

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