I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the … citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play … a passive role. The autocrat determines the distribution of the country's wealth among himself, the military, and the …

We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and … the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war … an option for a pre-emptive cyber attack. These features of the model make the cyber technology a first-ranked military …

national parliament cannot, without undermining its own legitimacy, allow the results of a constitutional referendum to be …

(over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious …

legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end, we design a laboratory experiment in which we exogenously manipulate the … organizational structure in a way that leaves the incentives of all individuals unaffected, but changes the perceived legitimacy of … incentive effects and that the observed changes are significantly associated with changes in perceived legitimacy. …

' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach … young adults have military health insurance. We also find that the ACA induced young adults to drop military health …

the aftermath of Cold War military regimes cluster in the central region. Among covariates, interestingly, foreign aid … shows a positive association with military regimes during the Cold War while it turns to exhibit a negative association …We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub …