The Allocation of Death in the Vietnam War: Comment

Butler, Michael R.; McNertney, Edward M.

doi:10.2307/1059482

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“…This study is more closely aligned with the investigations of Goff and Tollison [1987], Butler and McNertney [1989], Anderson and Tollison [1991a], and Stroup [1998] regarding executive and legislative branch influence on military force deployment. Anderson and Tollison [1991a] uncover a Presidential influence on Civil War mortality rates in Federal forces, although this point is disputed by Butler and McNertney [1989].…”

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“…Anderson and Tollison [1991a] uncover a Presidential influence on Civil War mortality rates in Federal forces, although this point is disputed by Butler and McNertney [1989]. Goff and Tollison [1987] observe that Congressional preferences are present in the stateby-state allocation of U.S. service personnel deaths during the Vietnam conflict.…”

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Preliminary Evidence on the Allocation of U.S. Army Deaths from Operation Iraqi Freedom

Cebula

Toma

2006

Atl Econ J

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Political influence on the use of the nation's war-making resources is considered in this study. Given the ‘tax-like’ consequences arising from military fatalities, rational political agents may engage in behavior that minimizes the negative electoral consequences resulting from the fatalities. An empirical model of the state-by-state allocation of U.S. Army fatalities resulting from Operation Iraqi Freedom is developed and tested. The results suggest that political influence originating in the White House is present in the allocation of fatalities from the military action in Iraq, but that Congressional effects, if any, are much weaker. In particular, population-adjusted fatality rates are lower in states that were highly contested ‘battleground’ states rich in Electoral College votes in the 2004 Presidential election. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2006D78, H5,

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