Buttery guns and welfare hawks: The politics of defense spending in advanced industrial democracies

American Journal of Political Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-134

  Whitten, Guy D ^a   Williams, Laron K ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78650958504     PISSN: 00925853     EISSN: 15405907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00479.x     Document Type: Article

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