Patterns of healthcare use in a sample of young adults entering the US Navy (N=1137) were examined in a longitudinal survey study. Baseline data provided information about healthcare use as a civilian, whereas follow-up data were used to examine changes in patterns of use over time following entry into the Military Health System (MHS). Entrance into the MHS was marked by increased use of preven...

The armed forces and the army are main elements of national power. Military readiness gives real significance to the geography, natural resources, and industrial power. Military elements of national power include military purposes, military doctrines, military strategies and policies (defensive and non-defensive), forces, training, command, military technology, weapons and equipment, military o...

Productivity growth is important for long-term economic and development, technology adoption one of its key drivers. This study empirically assesses whether political regimes are a significant determinant diffusion. Specifically, we examine the effects on diffusion using data based sample 104 technologies from 137 countries period 1901 to 2000. We consider detailed categories investigate differ...

In Afghanistan, Libya, Liberia and beyond, armed rebellions have begun when armies fell apart. When does this occur? This paper conducts a large-N analysis of these army-splinter rebellions, distinct from both non-military below coups, using new data. It finds that they follow logic state breakdown focusing on regime characteristics (personalist regimes the loss superpower support at end Cold W...

Title of Document: HUMAN RIGHTS AND US FOREIGN AID: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF AID ALLOCATIONS BEFORE AND DURING THE WAR ON TERROR Brian L. Miller, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Paul Huth Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park In this study, I examine the influence of human rights considerations on the US foreign aid decisionmaking proces...

When the leader of an autocratic regime loses power, one of three things happens. Someone from the incumbent leadership group replaces him, and the regime persists. The incumbent leadership group is replaced by democratically elected leaders. Or the incumbent leadership group loses control to a different group that replaces it with a new autocracy. Scholarship exists on the first two kinds of t...