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Conscription, the Military, and Welfare State Development: An Introduction
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Authors: | Obinger, Herbert ![]() |
Abstract: | »Die Entwicklung von Wehrpflicht, Militär und Wohlfahrtsstaat: Eine Einführung«. This paper discusses several possible causal mechanisms through which conscription and military interests might have shaped the development of western welfare states in the age of industrialized mass warfare. Relevant factors are military concerns about the quantity and quality of the population, the necessity to enhance legitimacy and to secure mass loyalty in times of war and military threat, and a growing pressure to compensate the ‘blood tax’ imposed by the draft with civic and social rights after the end of war. |
Keywords: | Conscription; Military; War; Welfare state | Issue Date: | 2020 | Journal: | Historical Social Research | Start page: | 7 | End page: | 26 | Note: | 2 | Band: | 45 | Type: | Zeitschriftenartikel | ISSN: | 0172-6404 | DOI: | 10.26092/elib/512 | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib47155 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) |
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