The Political Economy Of Defense Contracting
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Author | : Kenneth R. Mayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Patronage, Political |
ISBN | : 9780300045246 |
Many people suspect that politics drives American defence spending. They feel that Congressional decisions about which weapons systems should be supported and Pentagon decisions about which companies should build them are made on political considerations of local economic impact, and that Congress looks to the defence budget as a huge pork barrel project. In this book Kenneth R. Mayer draws on previously unavailable data on recent defence subcontract distributions down to individual congressional districts to test the link between politics and defence contracting. He concludes that the accepted beliefs are oversimplified and mostly wrong.
Author | : William J Weida |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000232646 |
This timely and wide-ranging study covers both the economic and the political aspects of defense spending—first by providing a theoretical framework and then by explaining, in a political economy context, the results of decisions to allocate scarce resources to defense. In doing so, the authors provide a comprehensive picture of the interaction between defense spending and the economic and political structure of the United States, complementing their exploration of topical concerns such as SDI with analysis of long-term trends and issues of timeless importance in the defense debate. Because of the politicizing of defense planning and procurement, there have been few significant applications of optimization techniques to high-level defense issues over the past decade. As a result, there has been a rapid decline in the importance of those techniques—historically the focus of books on defense economics. Like its predecessors, this book presents optimization techniques applicable to a wide variety of defense problems, but it also illustrates what happens in actual practice and why defense decisions are often not economically efficient. The authors discuss alternatives for cases when political constraints make efficient solutions unlikely and explore changes in the defense establishment and political structures that would make economically efficient resource allocations a reality.
Author | : Alex Mintz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2002-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134903324 |
Leading scholars examine the links between domestic politics, defense spending and the economics of the US defense industry.
Author | : Robert Higgs |
Publisher | : Holmes & Meier Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
A selection of revised papers originally presented at the Second Conference on Political Economy, held Oct. 22-23, 1987, at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : Morton H. Halperin |
Publisher | : Berkeley : Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Defense contracts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Seymour Melman |
Publisher | : New York : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John R. Hiller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Gordon Adams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781138537521 |
This is the first systematic study of the relationship between government and defense contractors, examining in detail the political impact of the eight most powerful defense contractors. It details ways in which Boeing, General Dynamics, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Rockwell International, and United Technologies influence government, from their basic contract activity, corporate structure, and research efforts, to their Washington offices, Political Action Committee campaign contributions, hiring of government personnel, and membership on federal advisory committees.Adams concludes with specific recommendations for changes in disclosure requirements that would curb some of the political power corporations can wield. It also suggests specific ways in which the Iron Triangle can be made subject to wider congressional and public scrutiny.
Author | : Gordon Adams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000678695 |
This is the first systematic study of the relationship between government and defense contractors, examining in detail the political impact of the eight most powerful defense contractors. It details ways in which Boeing, General Dynamics, Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Rockwell International, and United Technologies influence government, from their basic contract activity, corporate structure, and research efforts, to their Washington offices, Political Action Committee campaign contributions, hiring of government personnel, and membership on federal advisory committees. Adams concludes with specific recommendations for changes in disclosure requirements that would curb some of the political power corporations can wield. It also suggests specific ways in which the Iron Triangle can be made subject to wider congressional and public scrutiny.
Author | : Morton H. Halperin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
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