Military Expenditures of Dictatorial Regimes: A Strategic Theory

Tetsuya, Saito (2007): Military Expenditures of Dictatorial Regimes: A Strategic Theory.

Abstract

Unlike usual approaches to military expenditures that concentrate on foreign affairs, this paper analyzes a strategic structure for a dictatorialgovernment to plan military expenditures concenrrating on domestic affairs. Then we find two dilemmas: The dictatorial government may spend less on military equipment if they have some destructive devices and then citizens may have relatively larger disposable incomes in exchange for military oppressions; and the dictatorial government increases military expenditures as their economy grows to sap revolutionary interests. Based on these results, I also make some closing discussions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Strategic military expenditure; dictatorial government; revolutionary pressure; destructive devices; economic growth
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H56 - National Security and War; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C72 - Noncooperative Games

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