Ideology and Defense: An analysis of budgets and troop deployments in 37 European countries from 1961-2024

Description

The role of partisanship and ideology in foreign and defense policies is receiving increasing scholarly attention, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and renewed military investment in Europe. It is, hereby, often assumed that right-wing parties are more in favor of a strong military and inclined to engage in military actions abroad more easily than leftwing governments. However, this assumption is largely based on anecdotal evidence and has seldom been examined systematically across a wide range of countries and over longer periods of time. Introducing a new dataset of defense spending and troop deployments for 37 OECD and/or EU countries from 1961-2024, we examine whether the ideology of governments influence their defense policies, and how. Time-series regression analyses suggest that there is no relationship between cabinet ideology and troop deployment, however, they indicate a significant relationship between ideology and military spending.

Période	18 juin 2026
Titre de l'événement	Comparative Agenda Project Conference
Type d'événement	Une conférence
Emplacement	Paris, FranceAfficher sur la carte
Degré de reconnaissance	International