Burden Sharing: Income, Inequality and Willingness to Fight
| Autor: | Anna Getmansky, Christopher J. Anderson, Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Sociology and Political Science Inequality Public economics media_common.quotation_subject Military service HB 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies HC Economic History and Conditions HN 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Economic inequality Argument HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Development economics 050602 political science & public administration Economics World Values Survey media_common |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Political Science. 50:363-379 |
| ISSN: | 1469-2112 0007-1234 |
| Popis: | What explains citizens’ willingness to fight for their country in times of war? Using six waves of the World Values Survey, this study finds that individual willingness to fight is negatively related with country-level income inequality. When income inequality is high, the rich are less willing to fight than the poor. When inequality is low, the poor and rich differ little in their willingness to fight. This change in the willingness to fight between low and high inequality countries is greater among the rich than among the poor. This article explores several explanations for these findings. The data are consistent with the argument that high inequality makes it more attractive for the rich to buy themselves out of military service. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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