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Bove, Vincenzo and Brauner, Jennifer (2016) The demand for military expenditure in authoritarian regimes. Defence and Peace Economics, 27 (5). pp. 609-625. doi:10.1080/10242694.2014.925325 ISSN 1024-2694.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2014.925325
Abstract
This paper examines whether there are systematic differences in military spending between different types of autocratic regimes. We view military expenditure as an instrument a dictator can exploit in order to stay in power. How he utilises this instrument depends on the institutional set-up of his regime. We distinguish between military regimes, single party states and personalist regimes, and predict that military regimes should have the highest, whereas personalist dictatorships should have the lowest level of military spending. Using panel data on 64 dictatorships from 1960 to 2000, we find empirical evidence that our hypotheses are not rejected.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Armed Forces -- Appropriations and expenditures, Authoritarianism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Defence and Peace Economics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1024-2694 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 609-625 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10242694.2014.925325 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 December 2015 |
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