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Direct linkPowell, Jonathan – Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012
Previous studies have attested to leaders "coup-proofing" their regimes by reducing the ability or disposition of their armies to seek their removal. The following article tests the utility of these efforts. "Structural" coup-proofing such as counterbalancing is expected to reduce the ability to organize a coup plot by creating substantial…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Participant Characteristics, Political Power, Power Structure
Teachman, Jay – Sociology of Education, 2007
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that…
Descriptors: Military Service, Educational Attainment, Armed Forces, Volunteers
Peer reviewedJohnson, Robert J.; Kaplan, Howard B. – Youth and Society, 1991
Examines factors predisposing to enlistment in the all-volunteer armed forces, using data from a 1971 sample of over 2,000 Houston (Texas) seventh graders, with followups in 1980 and 1988. Finds that volunteers are more likely to have experienced limited peer acceptance and some disruption of socioemotional ties and that they are amenable to…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Life Events, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textBleda, Paul R.; And Others – Journal of Applied Psychology, 1978
This study assessed the relative degree of association between quality of army life and perceived attributes of different types of leaders. Interviews with one hundred thirty lower ranking enlisted personnel provided information about soldiers' satisfaction with various facets of military experience and their perceptions of the behavior of…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Enlisted Personnel, Factor Analysis, Interviews
Parker, Helen C. – 1973
To determine whether predictors of promotion for graduates of baccalaureate degree nursing programs are different from the predictors of promotion for graduates of hospital diploma programs in the Navy Nurse Corps, data were gathered from the cumulative records of 474 (252 graduates of baccalaureate programs and 222 graduates of hospital programs)…
Descriptors: Age, Armed Forces, Bachelors Degrees, Curriculum
Cook, Alvin A., Jr. – 1971
A mathematical model was developed of military enlistment behavior based on the principle of occupational choice. A quality adjustment, applicable to all labor markets, was incorporated into the model in estimating the supply of volunteers. It was assumed that the greater the excess supply of volunteers, the greater the average quality of…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Career Choice, Career Development, Labor Economics
