Expenditure Tradeoffs in the American States

A Longitudinal Test, 1948-1984

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3182779
AutoresJames Garand (0000-0001-5754-8673, Louisiana State University), James C Garand, Rebecca M Hendrick (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), Rebecca Hendrick (0000-0002-7016-8947, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Ano1991
Volume44
Fascículo4
Páginas915
Data de publicação1991-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/448800
OpenAlexW4245539185
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas21

Over the years, numerous scholars have explored the degree to which there are tradeoffs between defense and domestic (mostly welfare) spending in the United States and other Western democracies (Russett 1970, 1982; Perroff and Podalak-Warren 1979; Domke, Eichenberg, and Kelleher 1983; Fischer and Kamlet 1984; Kamlet and Mowery 1987; Mintz 1989). While there is substantial scholarly disagreement about how tradeoffs among expenditure categories are best measured in the first place (cf., Berry and Lowery 1990), there seems to have emerged in the extant literature a consensus that calls into question the degree to which systematic tradeoffs exist between defense and domestic expenditures. Such a finding would seem to be at odds with some journalistic and historical accounts that claim evidence for tradeoff effects in the decision process for defense and domestic spending. Scholars have suggested that the lack of an observed pattern of tradeoffs may be due to the ability of national governments to avoid making hard decisions about trading spending for one expenditure area off against spending for another by financing new spending through either increased taxes or larger budget deficits (Domke et al. 1983; Mintz 1989). To date, there has been virtually no attempt to examine the degree to which tradeoffs occur among spending categories within the American states. To be sure, there are no spending categories analogous to defense and domestic spending found in the American states; it is clear that one cannot frame the question of expenditure tradeoffs in

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