The Political Economy of Their World Military Expenditures: Impact of Regime Type on the Defense Allocation Process
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Looney, R.E.
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1988
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The purpose of this paper is to develop an empirically verifiable
framework for explaining patterns of third world defense expenditures. In
doing so we have merged two areas of research that previously have been
examined somewhat separately-economic (or ability to spend) with political
(willingness to allocate resources to defense). In general our findings
indicate that military regimes appear committed to developing the size of
the defense sector to levels not warranted by economic size per se. They
have done this through extensive use of externally borrowed funds. They
have used increases in foreign exchange earnings to expand defense
allocations, and they have distorted their price systems in a manner that
facilitates increased defense expenditures. The major finding of the study is
that ability and willingness factors, rather than external conditions, are
instrumental in affecting third world military expenditures.
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Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Spring, 1988.
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Looney, R.E., "The Political Economy of Their World Military Expenditures: Impact of Regime Type on the Defense Allocation Process," Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Spring, 1988.
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