Conscription or Compulsory Volunteering

Conscription as Regulation

The Political Economy of Conscription

The Political Economy of Conscription Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political allure of military conscription by its specific intraand inter...

Mandatory autopsies and organ conscription.

Laws requiring autopsies have generated little controversy. Yet it is considered unconscionable to take organs without consent for transplantation. We think an organ draft is justified if mandatory autopsies are. We reject the following five attempts to show why a mandatory autopsy policy is legitimate, but organ conscription is not: (1) The social contract gives the state a greater duty to pro...

Discourses of Programming Teaching within Compulsory Education – Fixed or Changeable?

Knowledge linked to programming has recently been extensively strengthened in curricula and syllabi in the Swedish compulsory school. The introduction of this new content requires that teachers have to be trained in programming and programming teaching. The aim of this study is to investigate what content and values that emerge as important in a professional development course and in the partic...

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benef...