Contribution to Book
The Societal Determinants and Impact of Military-Spending Patterns
Political and Military Sociology: Volume 41, The Social Implications of National Defense: An Annual Review
(2013)
Abstract
This chapter suggests that important multidirectional causal relations between domestic and international political outcomes. It explores the link between military spending and society. Military spending is a problematic issue for national political discourse. A number of studies have approached the processes that surround military spending from an economic perspective, without building on substantial theoretical and empirical work on external threat from the political science literature. The first step to addressing the interstices of the causes and consequences of military spending on society is to indicate what the literature has to say about why states are rapidly building up their militaries. Rapid military spending also allowed for a certain measure of patronage and protection for civilian leaders, helping to keep the military on their side in unstable regimes. Military spending can have its origins in legitimate security threats. The empirical literature on the effects of military spending has produced relatively inconsistent results.
Keywords
- Sociology,
- Military,
- Political sociology
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Editor
Bruce D. McDonald III
Publisher
Transaction
Series
Political and Military Sociology Series
ISBN
9781412852647
Citation Information
Susan G. Sample, Brandon Valeriano and Choong-Nam Kang. "The Societal Determinants and Impact of Military-Spending Patterns" 1st ed.New BrunswickPolitical and Military Sociology: Volume 41, The Social Implications of National Defense: An Annual Review Vol. 41 (2013) p. 109 - 136 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brandon-valeriano/39/