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Guns Versus Butter: A Disaggregated Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1989

Alex Mintz
Alex Mintz*
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Texas A&M University
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Abstract

Prior studies of the guns-versus-butter trade-off have focused on total military expenditures and subcomponents of welfare spending (education, health, and housing). I extend the analysis to include the major subcomponents of the defense budget. The results are consistent with Clayton's; Domke, Eichenberg, and Kelleher's; and Russett's findings of a lack of defense-welfare trade-off in the 1947–80 era but reveal very specific trade-offs during the Reagan years.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , December 1989 , pp. 1285 - 1293
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989

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