Relative militarization and its impact on public policy budgetary shifts in Agentina, 1963-1982
By: Paul G. Buchanan and Robert Looney
Contributors: Looney, Robert E.; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of National Security Affairs
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: FOREIGN POLICY; MILITARY BUDGETS
Other titles: NPS-56-88-002.
Description: In spite of a growing literature on the subject, analyses of the policy impact of military      regimes in Latin American remain inconclusive. Empirical analyses have neither confirmed or      denied the proposition that military regimes have a decided, and often negative impact on      public policy. In light of that, this essay attempts to test the relatively simple assumption that      it is the degree of military control over the state apparatus (i.e. the relative 'depth' of      militarization), rather than the advent of a military bureaucratic regime per se, that has the      most influence on public policy outputs, here measured in budgetary allocations at both the      macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. (sdw)
Notes: Cover title.

"NPS-56-88-002."

"July 1988."

"Final report for period October 1986 - May 1987."

AD-A199-953.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-52).

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