02481cam a22003495a 4500 18034018 20160203131011.0 140207t2014 enka frb f001 0 eng d 1107667372 9781107667372 DLC eng DLC EG-ScBUE 355.0213 22 CAV Caverley, Jonathan D. 39248 Democratic militarism : voting, wealth, and war / Jonathan D. Caverley. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c.2014. xvi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Cambridge studies in international relations ; 131 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. "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"-- Politics and war. BUEsh 15586 Democracy. BUEsh 3166 War Technological innovations. BUEsh 39249 War Economic aspects. BUEsh 39250 War Public opinion. BUEsh Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. BUEsh Lebanon War, 2006. BUEsh Great Britain History, Military 19th century. BUEsh BUSBOL August2015 February2016 ddc 355.0213 CAV 20478 20450 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2015-08-09 Purchase 540.00 21765 1 9 355.0213 CAV 000030799 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2017-10-08 675.00 BB