Douglas L. Kriner, Francis X. Shen

The Casualty Gap (eBook, PDF)

The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Casualty Gap shows how the most important cost of American military campaigns--the loss of human life--has been paid disproportionately by poorer and less-educated communities since the 1950s. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, including National Archives data on the hometowns of more than 400,000 American soldiers killed in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, this book is the most ambitious inquiry to date into the distribution of American wartime casualties across the nation, the forces causing such inequalities to emerge, and their consequences for politics and democratic governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199741762
• Artikelnr.: 38134989

Autorenporträt

Doug Kriner is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He specializes in American politics, separation of powers, domestic politics and the use of force. Francis Shen is Fellow at the McArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1.: The Casualty Gap
2.: Inequality and U.S. Casualties from WWII to Iraq
3.: Selection, Occupational Assignment and the Emergence of the Casualty Gap
4.: Do Casualty Gaps Matter?
5.: The Broader Consequences of Casualty Inequalities
6.: Political Ramifications of the Vietnam Casualty Gap
7.: Political Ramifications of the Iraq Casualty Gap
8.: The Casualty Gap and Civic Engagement
9.: The Future of the Casualty Gap
References
List of Tables and Figures