Entry:

Jencks, Christopher, "Methodological Problems in Studying 'Military Keynesianism'" American Journal of Sociology, 91 (September, 1985), 379-384.


Abstract:

This commentary on Griffin, Devine, and Wallace (AJS, 88 [Supplement, 1982], 113-53) and Mintz and Hicks (AJS, 90 [September, 1984], 411-17), and Griffin, Wallace, and Devine (Cambridge Journal of Economics, 6 [1982], 1-14), argues that mis-specified equations underline the claims that domestic economic and political factors such as unemployment in unionized industries, profits in oligopolistic industries, and proximity of upcoming elections significantly affected U.S. military spending between 1949 and 197

GSS Years:

1972-1982

Other Data Sets:

Census 1970; CPR 1955-79

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
NATARMS

"MILITARY