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New Study: Conscription Makes Men More Hostile to Immigration

A new Research Square preprint by Maelle Delouis-Jost argues that compulsory military service may reinforce exclusionary views of national belonging rather than build broad civic solidarity. Using European Social Survey data and a regression discontinuity design across eleven European countries that abolished mandatory conscription between 1961 and 2006, the study finds that men who narrowly […]
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New Study: Conscription in Turkey Makes Soldiers Trust Their Own Group More, Not Society at Large

A new Journal of Economic Growth study by Lena Gerling and Arzu Kibris uses Turkey’s conscription system and its long-running civil conflict as a natural experiment to study how battlefield exposure changes trust. The core finding is stark: men exposed to armed conflict during military service became more trusting of their ingroup, but not more […]
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Policy Brief: Gender Polarization among South Korean Youth: Determinants, Conscription, and Comparative Insights from Sweden

In a new interesting policy brief of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Hannah Kim points out the damage to gender relations in South Korea. Among the various structural drivers, male-only conscription in South Korea remains one of the most enduring and polarizing institutions affecting young men. (…) The symbolic weight of conscription has […]
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New Study: Women’s Preferences for the Military Service System in Finland

Based on a Discrete Choice Experiment, Finnish women demonstrate a distinct preference for a system characterised by high female participation and institutional flexibility, and are willing to trade a substantial part of their daily allowance for these structural improvements. Furthermore, within the financial dimension, future rewards are heavily discounted in favour of immediate compensation. Abstract: […]
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