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Bove, Vincenzo, Di Leo, Riccardo and Giani, Marco (2022) Military culture and institutional trust : evidence from conscription reforms in Europe. American Journal of Political Science . doi:10.1111/ajps.12745 ISSN 0092-5853. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12745
Abstract
Does military conscription reduce the distance between the ordinary citizen and the state? Decades after its abolition, numerous European policymakers from across the political spectrum advocate the reintroduction of conscription to foster civic virtues, despite a lack of empirical evidence in this respect. Leveraging quasi-random variation in conscription reforms across 15 European countries, we find that cohorts of men drafted just before its abolition display significantly and substantially lower institutional trust than cohorts of men who were just exempted. At the same time, ending conscription had no effect on institutional trust among women from comparable cohorts. Results are neither driven by more favourable attitudes towards the government, nor by educational choices. Instead, this civil-military gap unfolds through the formation of a homogeneous community with uniform values. We argue that reintroducing a compulsory military service may not produce the effects anticipated by its advocates
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Draft -- Europe -- Economic aspects, Civil-military relations, Trust, Draft -- Social aspects -- Europe, Regression analysis, Economics -- Statistical methods | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | American Journal of Political Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0092-5853 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/ajps.12745 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 May 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 October 2022 | ||||||||
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