Paid to Perform: Aligning Total Military Compensation With Talent Management. Volume 8

Wallace, Roy A; Colarusso, Michael J; Hall, Andrew O.; Lyle, David S.; Walker, M. S.

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“…Doing so is inconsistent with increasingly capital-intensive military requirements and multilateral agreements. This phenomenon is not due to widespread policies aimed at increasing the level of technical skill in the military workforce in conjunction with improvements in military technology (Cancian and Klein, 2015; Wallace et al , 2015). For example, two of the most technologically advanced countries in the study – the US and the UK – devoted 37% of defense spending to personnel in 2015.…”

Section: Theory: International and Domestic Collective Actionmentioning

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Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending

Becker

2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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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, operationalizing burden shifting as the extent to which a country limits or decreases defense expenditures, while at the same time favoring personnel over equipment modernization and readiness in the composition of defense budgets. Why do countries choose to allocate defense resources to personnel, rather than equipment modernization? I find that governments slightly decrease top-line defense spending in response to unemployment while shifting much more substantial amounts within defense budgets from equipment expenditures into personnel. This research highlights the intimate connection between Europe’s economic fortunes, transatlantic security, and burden sharing in North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union – of particular interest as a pandemic buffets the transatlantic economy. It also points policy analysts toward factors more amenable to political decisions than the structural variables generally associated with burden sharing, bridging significant gaps between defense economics, security studies, and comparative political economy.

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Section: Theory: International and Domestic Collective Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending

Becker

2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Paid to Perform: Aligning Total Military Compensation With Talent Management. Volume 8

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Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending

Rusty guns and buttery soldiers: unemployment and the domestic origins of defense spending

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