I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription
@article{Asal2017IWY, title={I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription}, author={Victor Asal and Justin Conrad and Nathan W. Toronto}, journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution}, year={2017}, volume={61}, pages={1456 - 1481} }
What explains the use of military conscription? Using a new data set of more than 100 countries over a period of 200 years, we examine the determinants of a state’s decision to implement a military draft. We argue that the decision to use conscription is largely dependent on historical factors. Specifically, we contend that former British colonies are less likely to use conscription as a means of military recruitment because of an anticonscription precedent set during the English Civil War. We…
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