As to the right and the volume of conscientious objection Germany has an exceptional position. At first this paper deals with the legal basis of conscientious objection and presents the number of applications for recognition of conscientious objection from 1958 to 1998. Then hypotheses are...

There is a sizeable theoretical and empirical literature on the relation between defense spending and important macro-economic variables, but a lack of specific models. In an interesting study published in this journal in 1984, Cappelen, Gleditsch & Bjerkholt (CGB) developed a theoretical model...