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      <title>The dynamics of public spending</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77606</link>
      <description>Title: The dynamics of public spending
Authors: Cusack, Thomas R.
Abstract: This paper provides a model-based account of the forces shaping the dynamics of government spending in the industrialized democracies over the past few decades. The principle argument is that both short-term and long-term forces have been at work in the evolution of government spending in these countries. Emphasized here is the important role that the prevailing center of political gravity within the polity as well as the constraints that recent movements toward the integration of national capital markets into the international economic system have played in bringing about changes in government spending levels. Incorporated in the model are the hypothesized effects, in both the short and long run, of a set of cointegrated independent variables, as well as a set of other terms with impacts that are likely to be short run. The hypotheses surrounding this formulation are systematically tested and then a more encompassing model that includes the effects of domestic politics and international economic conditions is then presented and evaluated.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 1992 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The changing contours of government</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77608</link>
      <description>Title: The changing contours of government
Authors: Cusack, Thomas R.
Abstract: This paper examines the development of general government finance and employment within fifteen industrialized democracies during the post-World War II era. Annual time series, extending, where possible, from 1950 through 1988, are analyzed (as well as detailed in the appendix to the paper). Using a variety of accounting schemes, the changing contours of government's control over economic resources are described. It is pointed out that while the growth in government spending relative to GDP has slowed down during the 1980's, the general inability or unwillingness to accelerate the growth in revenues has led in many cases to a significant increase in public debt. This has been accompanied by a squeeze on many spending items, particularly in the area of investment, as interest payments on the debt absorb more and more funds. While growth in government employment has continued, though at a slower pace than in the decades of the '60's and 70's, there has been some marked progress in bringing the cost of public employment into line with what is occurring in the private sector. This latter development is symptomatic of the convergence in price movements that has occurred; during the last decade or so governments have not continued to leap ahead of the private sector, particularly households, in terms of rising costs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Realpolitik and multistate system stability</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77609</link>
      <description>Title: Realpolitik and multistate system stability
Authors: Cusack, Thomas R.
Abstract: This paper describes a project focused on the theoretical value of realism to the study of international relations. A large number of the primary assumptions and propositions within realism are detailed and evaluated in light of results drawn from studies using a simulation model of a multistate system that incorporates many of the principal components of realism. In sum, these results help to assess many of the contradictory positions within realist thought and also illustrate the bases for the diversity of expectations held by different schools within realism.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>1990-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>On the domestic political-economic sources of American military spending</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77605</link>
      <description>Title: On the domestic political-economic sources of American military spending
Authors: Cusack, Thomas R.
Abstract: This paper attempts to demonstrate the significant impact that domestic political-economic factors have in shaping the American defense budget. Evidence is provided which shows that while the military spending burden sustained by the United States is far and away greater than its allies, this may be a function less of free riding on the part of those allies, and more a function of the domestic political-economic needs of the American system. The mutual influence relationship between U.S. military spending and public opinion is then examined and evidence provided which suggests that public support of U.S. political leaders is significantly affected by the arms spending competition between the Soviet Union and the United States during periods when the American public focuses its attention on foreign affairs. Finally, a political business cycle model of American defense spending is examined for the period 1953-1986 and shown to be a useful explanatory device. In particular, it helps illuminate the importance of military spending as policy instrument for economic stabilization and a means of helping secure electoral support from the American public. The analyses in this paper also demonstrate the non-revolutionary character of the Reagan administration defense policies, policies that are very much in keeping with the post-World War II traditions of American administrations.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>1989-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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