Rahbek-Clemmensen, Jon, Archer, Emerald, Barr, John, Belkin, Aaron, Guerrero, Mario, Hall, Cameron and Swain, Katie E. O. (2012) Conceptualizing the civil-military gap: a research note. Armed forces & society, 38 (4). pp. 669-678. ISSN 0095-327X
Abstract
The authors suggest that scholars mean very different things when they refer to the civil-military gap. To illustrate the point, the authors conceptualize the gap in terms of four distinct ideal types and show that scholars have referred to each variant as the civil-military gap at different times. Though the authors recognize that the four ideal types-cultural, demographic, policy preference, and institutional-are not always mutually exclusive, the authors suggest that they are divergent enough to warrant consideration as distinct variants and that their specification can enhance the civil-military relations literature by helping scholars identify and untangle the causes and effects of the gap.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://afs.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Authors |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | civil-military gap, civil-military relations, civilian control, military culture |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > International Relations |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/46758/ |
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