Is Military Spending Converging Across Countries? An Examination of Trends and Key Determinants

Institutional determinants of military spending

Drawing on a database for 1988-2006 containing information on 157 countries, we investigate the effects on military spending of government form, electoral rules, concentration of parliamentary parties, and ideology. From an OLS regression on pooled data, our results show that presidential democracies spend more than parliamentary systems on defense, whereas the presence of a plurality voting sy...

an investigation of accuracy and complexity across different proficiency levels in written narrative task

abstract this quasi-experimental study was aimed at examining the impact of storyline complexity on the grammatical accuracy and complexity of advanced and intermediate efl learners. a total of 65 advanced and intermediate efl learners were selected from iran language institute (ili). an intact group including 35 intermediate participants and another intact group with 30 advanced participants ...

an examination of developmental dyslexia among iranian efl second graders

چکیده رساله/پایان نامه: این تحقیق جهت بررسی تاثیر نارسا خوانی در یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجه در میان دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی طراحی شده است. ده نفر از دانش اموزان ایرانی مقطع دوم راهنمایی و ده نفر از دانش اموزان غیر نارسا خوان همان مقطع برای انجام این تحقیق انتخاب شدند. تمام شرکت کنندگان توسط ازمون زبان انگلیسی ای که برای این هدف ساخته شده و متشکل از بخشهای خواندن ام...

The Politics of Military Spending

Adjusting health expenditure for military spending and interest payment: Israel and the OECD countries

BACKGROUND Compared to OECD countries, Israel has a remarkably low percentage of GDP and of government expenditure spent on health, which are not reflected in worse national outcomes. Israel is also characterized by a relatively high share of GDP spent on security expenses and payment of public debt. OBJECTIVES To determine to what extent differences between Israel and the OECD countries in s...