Doctoral Dissertation Research: Military Participation Ratios in the Advanced Industrial Societies

本论文探讨一个国家的国防态势如何影响其努力和成功地实现社会政策目标。 维持庞大的常备武装部队相当于国家对劳动力市场结果的重大干预，影响了对公共社会计划的需求和承诺，并赋予大部分人口以政治上突出的“公民”地位。 然而，尽管军事人事政策和公共政策之间存在这种联系，福利国家的军事组成部分却很少受到学术界的关注。 该项目通过研究军队规模和国防开支水平如何影响社会保障和家庭福利的公共支出来解决这一差距。 这些数据来自两个来源：19个发达工业国家1960-1994年公布的数据，以及美国1945-1995年国家和州一级的数据。

This dissertation examines how a nation's defense posture influences its efforts and successes at achieving social policy objects. The maintenance of large standing armed forces amounts to a significant state intervention in labor market outcomes, influences the need for and commitments to public social programs, and confers the politically-salient status of "citizen" on large segments of the population. Despite such connections between military personnel policies and public policy, however, the military component of the welfare state has received little scholarly attention. The project addresses this gap by examining how the size of the military and the level of defense spending affect public spending for social security and family benefits. The data come from two sources: published figures from19 advanced industrial nations over the period of 1960-1994, and from national and state-level data for the United States over the period of 1945-1995.