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Individual Preferences and the Demand for Military Expenditure

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dc.contributor.authorWithers, Glenn
dc.contributor.authorThrosby, David
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:23:52Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T10:42:23Z
dc.description.abstractWhose preferences determine the tradeoff between security and civilian output in deciding upon budget allocations to defence? This paper considers the role that consumer preferences might play in influencing military spending. We propose normative criteria to judge the economic or political efficiency of defence provision at a given time, and test them using Australian survey-based micro-data. Our results suggest that the political system has not delivered a simple social-choice translation of individual preferences into collective outcomes, nor has it delivered results consistent with simple majority-voting median preferences.
dc.identifier.issn1043-0717
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/67005
dc.publisherHarwood Academic Publishers
dc.sourceDefence and Peace Economics
dc.subjectKeywords: Contingent valuation; Demand for defence; Military spending; Social choice
dc.titleIndividual Preferences and the Demand for Military Expenditure
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage102
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage87
local.contributor.affiliationWithers, Glenn, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationThrosby, David, Macquarie University
local.contributor.authoruidWithers, Glenn, u8202309
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160604 - Defence Studies
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub1381
local.identifier.citationvolume12
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0141501685
local.type.statusPublished Version

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