TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caverley,Jonathan D.
TI  - Democratic militarism: voting, wealth, and war 
T2  - Cambridge studies in international relations
SN  - 1107667372
U1  - 355.0213 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Politics and war
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Democracy
KW  - War
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - United States
KW  - Lebanon War, 2006
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 19th century
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - August2015
KW  - February2016
N1  - Index : p. 301-306; Bibliography : p. 273-300; Machine generated contents note: 1. Sources of democratic military aggression; 2. Cost distribution and grand strategy; 3. Analyses of public opinion; 4. Analyses of arming and war; 5. British electoral reform and imperial overstretch; 6. Vietnam and the American way of small war; 7. Contemporary Israel; 8. Conclusion: strategy wears a dollar sign
N2  - "Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results? Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military technical change enables an average voter to pay very little of the costs of large militaries and armed conflict, in terms of both death and taxes. Jonathan Caverley provides an original statistical analysis of public opinion and international aggression, combined with historical evidence from the late Victorian British Empire, the US Vietnam War effort, and Israel's Second Lebanon War. This book undermines conventional wisdom regarding democracy's exceptional foreign policy characteristics, and challenges elite-centered explanations for poor foreign policy. This accessible and wide ranging book offers a new account of democratic warfare, and will help readers to understand the implications of the revolution in military affairs"--
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