Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending
Journal: European Political Science Review
Year: 2021

Abstract Scholars and practitioners continue to debate transatlantic burden sharing, which has implications for broader questions of collective action and international organizations. Little research, however, has analyzed domestic and institutional drivers of burden-sharing behavior; even less has disaggregated defense spending to measure burden sharing more precisely. This paper enhances understanding of the relationship between national political economies and burden shifting, operationalizin