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Omer F. Orsun
Uluslararası İlişkiler, vol. 67, 2020, pp. 61--81
Uluslararası İlişkiler, vol. 67, 2020, pp. 61--81
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Orsun, O. F. (2020). Dimensions of Democracy and Military Expenditure. Uluslararası İlişkiler, 67, 61–81. https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.772657
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Orsun, Omer F. “Dimensions of Democracy and Military Expenditure.” Uluslararası İlişkiler 67 (2020): 61–81.
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Orsun, Omer F. “Dimensions of Democracy and Military Expenditure.” Uluslararası İlişkiler, vol. 67, 2020, pp. 61–81, doi:10.33458/uidergisi.772657.
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@article{orsun2020a,
title = {Dimensions of Democracy and Military Expenditure},
year = {2020},
journal = {Uluslararası İlişkiler},
pages = {61--81},
volume = {67},
doi = {10.33458/uidergisi.772657},
author = {Orsun, Omer F.}
}
Is democracy a luxury that nations cannot afford during wartime? Focusing on the dimensions of democracy separately, I argue that two main features of democracy, contestation and inclusiveness, pull war effort decisions in opposite directions. While decreasing contestation increases the available discretionary resources to leaders and generates long-term reputational incentives to fund a war effort, the inclusiveness dimension determines leaders’ ability to maintain their support base at different levels of a war effort. Predictions from this new theory are tested with a panel dataset that covers all the state-years between 1950 and 2000. Statistical analyses confirm the implications of the theory.