Providing a robust conceptual framework, urban regime theory has-despite its cited
shortcomings-gained a dominant position in the literature on local politics, in addition to its …

Since World War II, the US government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense.
Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten …

Rural‐urban differences in the association of food insecurity and hunger with income
suggest that the cost of living is substantially lower in rural than in urban areas. This implies …

In this paper I use a model informed by key theories of regional processes, and I test three
related hypotheses concerning the effects of different types of federal spending (public …

Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense for most of the two Reagan administrations,
once suggested that to the call for military expenditure" cuts, cuts, cuts, I reply: jobs, jobs …

Objective. This study examines how defense spending in the 1980s and early 1990s
affected economic growth in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties in the southeast …

Recent geographical scholarship on military spending is characterized by a thunderous
silence. This paper analyzes Pentagon contracts awarded to Southern counties in 2011 …

For more than 40 years, international relations were dominated by Cold War competition for
political, economic, and military supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union …

President Trump embraced economic populism centered on trade protectionism, restrictions
on international capital and technology flows, and subsidies for American raw material …

Scholars have devoted a lot of attention to differences in regional incomes in the United
States and variations in regional economic development. From historians like Douglas North …