This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … life during the post-revolution period until the end of war with Iraq in 1988. The average annual years of life lost is … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic …

power. After summarizing the key arguments advanced by presidency scholars in the aftermath of World War II, this article … elements of the president's domestic or foreign policy agendas during war that they otherwise would oppose. And no one, to date … calls for continued empirical research on the causal effects of war on presidential power, and for renewed investments in …