The Economic Theory of Alliances
A Survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6285533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tod Sandler (0000-0001-9077-5915, Iowa State University, corresponding author), Todd Sandler |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 446-483 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002793037003003 |
| OpenAlex | W2322523882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 56 |
| References cited | 61 |
This article surveys the development of the economic theory of alliances over the last quarter of a century since the 1966 article by Olson and Zeckhauser. The pure public good model and the joint product model are presented and then brought up to date. Alternative demand functions for military expenditures are indicated. Issues that concern alliance size, burden sharing, and suboptimality are addressed for the alternative paradigms. Theoretical extensions are reviewed and have involved the technology of public supply, the security function, alternative cost structures, group allocation processes, and institutional arrangements. Finally, theoretical developments are briefly related to the large empirical literature
Alliance · Economics · Function (biology · Microeconomics · Political science · Product (mathematics · Public economics · Public good · Quarter (Canadian coin · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Local Government Finance and Decentralization
Renegotiating the World Order
Exploring the efficacy of post-secondary career and technical education industry advisory partnerships
Japan und der Vorwurf des Trittbrettfahrerverhaltens in der US-amerikanisch-japanischen Allianz
Building a Clean Machine
Ordnungspolitik und Sicherheitspolitik als Elemente der Sicherungspolitik
Alliance Under Pressure
Endogenous Formation of Alliances in Conflicts
An Empirical Test of Federalist and Anti-Federalist Theories of State Contributions, 1775-1783
The Superpowers and International Institutions
Do Allies Really Free Ride
Reassessing the public goods theory of alliances
Why New Zealand Took Itself out of Anzus
US Diplomatic Visits and Allies’ Military Spending
Pledge and Forget? Testing the Effects of Nato’s Wales Pledge on Defense Investment
"Coalition of the Bribed and Bullied?" U.S. Economic Linkage and the Iraq War Coalition
The logic of security markets
Security, profit or shadow of the past? Explaining the security strategies of microstates
Free Riders in spite of Themselves? Public Opinion, Elite Behavior, and Alliance Burden Sharing in Australia
Free-riding in alliances
The effect of alliance membership on national defense burdens, 1953–88
An Empirical Test of Federalist and Anti-Federalist Theories of State Contributions, 1775-1783
Patrons, clients, and allies in the Arab‐Israeli conflict
On the formation of alliances in conflict and contests
The political economy of the peace dividend
Federations, coalitions, and risk diversification
Colluding victims
The likelihood of local allies free-riding
Explaining states’ burden-sharing behaviour within Nato
The U.S.- South Korea Alliance
Discriminatory European Union Membership and the Redistribution of Enlargement Gains
National Behaviour in Multilateral Military Operations
Sharing the Financial Burden for U.N. and Nato Peacekeeping, 1976-1996
Nato Burden Sharing in Libya
Great competition
External Threat, Internal Rivalry, and Alliance Formation
Impure Public Goods, Relative Gains, and International Cooperation
Burden Sharing in the Funding of the UNHCR
Choosing Demands Strategically
Inducing Deterrence through Moral Hazard in Alliance Contracts
The Defense Cooperation Agreement Dataset (DCAD)
Multiple Goals or Deterrence
A Model of Foreign Policy Substitutability
The Politics of Diplomacy
Following the Flag or Following the Charter? Examining the Determinants of UN Involvement in International Crises, 1945-20021
Explaining Wars of Choice
Do Alliance Abandonment and Coercion Increase Support for Nuclear Weapons? An Elite Survey in Nato
Defense Cooperation Agreements and the Emergence of a Global Security Network
Free Riding, Network Effects, and Burden Sharing in Defense Cooperation Networks
Sharing the Burden of the Border
Alliances
Explaining Institutional Change
When Do Leaders Free‐Ride? Business Experience and Contributions to Collective Defense
Fading Friendships
Security
Accidental rivals? EU fiscal rules, Nato, and transatlantic burden-sharing
Asymmetric burden-sharing and the restraining and deterrence effects of alliances
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods
Impurity of Defense
The private provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income
Burden Sharing, Strategy, and the Design of Nato
Public Expenditures in Communist and Capitalist Nations
The Logic of Collective Action
The Logic of Collective Action
Estimating the Impact of the Soviet Union's Threat on the United States-- Japan Alliance
Sharing the Defense Burden Among Western Allies
An Econometric Technique for Comparing Median Voter and Oligarchy Choice Models of Collective Action
An Economic Theory of Alliances
Deterrence, defense spending, and elasticity
Burden sharing in the Nato alliance
Group size, group homo-geneity, and the aggregate provision of a pure public good under cournot behavior
From weakest-link to best-shot
The demand for military expenditures
Giving with Impure Altruism
The Demand for Military Expenditure
Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods
Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods
East European military expenditures in the 1970s
U.S. Assistance, Israeli Allocation, and the Arms Race in the Middle East
Nato Burden Sharing and the Forces of Change
Nato Burden Sharing and the Forces of Change
The Theory of Collective Action and Nato Defense Burdens
A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Nato
Testing the Theory of Collective Action
A Reassessment
Alliances and Collective Goods
On the Economic Theory of Alliances
Defense Alliances and International Trade
Trading Public Goods in the Western Alliance System
Corralling the Free Rider
Rejoinder to Murdoch and Sandler
The theory of collective action and burden sharing in Nato
A Collective Goods Analysis of the Warsaw Pact after Czechoslovakia
Collective Goods and International Organization
Alliance Politics and Issue Areas
On the private provision of public goods
The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance 1880-1914
| Unique citing works | 56 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2026 (43) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |