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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Thorpe, Rebecca

Titel

Response to Eva Bertram’s review of The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending

Ist Teil von

• Perspectives on politics, 2018-03, Vol.16 (1), p.166-167

Ort / Verlag

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]Bertram raises incisive queries about the limitations of economic reliance as an explanation for defense spending, and whether the concept is generalizable to other policy realms. [...]evidence suggests that rural reliance on prison infrastructure heightens political support for punitive sentencing laws and militates against criminal justice reforms (Rebecca U. Thorpe, “Perverse Politics,” Perspectives on Politics, 13(3), 2015). [...]perhaps most crucially, are there viable political reforms that might help fortify Congress’s prerogatives and restrain executive independence in matters concerning warfare?