The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States. (book reviews)

Few topics in political economy are more relevant in the 1990s than the politics of U.S. military spending, as budgets are being revamped. Yet political scientists have achieved little consensus on the causes and effects of such spending. Theories of arms races (action-reaction processes) and bureaucratic inertia (organizational processes) have proven almost untestable in the Cold War era because military spending data are too few and of dubious quality.

Now increasing attention is being given to political economy theories connecting military spending to domestic politics and ...

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