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Personal Roots of Representation
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Copyright
- © The Author(s) 2023
- ISSN
- 0095-327X
- eISSN
- 1556-0848
- DOI
- 10.1177/0095327x231168321
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Military veterans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives during the 113th–115th Congresses (2013–2019) exhibited distinct legislative behavior on selected defense-related topics compared with their nonveteran colleagues. Examining 208 House roll call votes on issues salient to military veterans in which more than 90,000 individual Representative votes were cast as well as by categorizing more than 19,000 bills sponsored, this study finds that there was a small but distinct veteran voting trend that opposed Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) troop reductions. In addition, younger members exhibited a trend that suggests future Congresses may be more willing to approve use of military force than in previous decades. Finally, this study empirically demonstrates the tension in conservative fiscal policy preferences between increasing defense spending versus restraining total government expenditure.
Journal
Armed Forces & Society – SAGE
Published: Jan 1, 2023
Keywords: civil–military relations; U.S. House of Representatives; defense spending; military effectiveness; defense policy; veterans