Military in politics and budgetary allocations

WHO's budgetary allocations and burden of disease: a comparative analysis.

BACKGROUND Ministers of health, donor agencies, philanthropists, and international agencies will meet at Bamako, Mali, in November, 2008, to review global priorities for health research. These individuals and organisations previously set health priorities for WHO, either through its regular budget or extra-budgetary funds. We asked what insights can be gained as to their priorities from previou...

Shades of Whiteness: Petits-Blancs and the Politics of Military Allocations Distribution in World War I Colonial Cochinchina �

DuringWorld War I male French citizens in Cochinchina whom the colonial government had drafted to fight in Europe left their families behind in the colony.Through a complicated subsidies process, the government offered financial assistance to families impoverished by the draftee’s departure and the concomitant loss of income. Far from being a monolithic category, the colony’s poor white applica...

The Politics of Military Spending

PTSD in the U.S. military, and the politics of prevalence.

Despite the long-standing codification of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a mental disorder, the diagnosis is a controversial one whose legitimacy is at times disputed, particularly in U.S. military contexts (e.g., McNally and Frueh 2013; McNally, 2003, 2007). These disputes often manifest in a struggle over prevalence rates. Utilizing data from in-depth interviews and relying on situat...

Expert Judgments in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Resource Allocations: A Case Study in Military Planning

We consider resource allocation problems in which agents are assigned to tasks with the aim of (i) minimizing the assignment cost and (ii) maximizing the overall value resulting from the completion of tasks. Often, such assignment problems are challenging, because it may not be known to what extent the agents can complete tasks or what the value of either full or partial task completion is. Fur...