nature of elite pacts to add to both sides of the debate. On the one hand, we argue that we should be more pessimistic about … the new organizational economics reveals a design dilemma — a forced trade-off between the credible commitment to an elite … pact in the short term and the adaptability of an elite pact in the long term — that plagues the most commonly considered …

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war … and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …