The Comparative Study Of Conscription In The Armed Forces () 424 P., Hardcover

This volume contributes to the comparative study of military conscription.
Issues discussed include: a conceptual clarification of conscription as
distinguished from volunteerism and militia service; the emergence of the
citizen soldier model; patterns of anti-militarism before World War I;
conscription in third world armies; gender-issues in relation to military
service; the present phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa; the decline of
conscript armies in Western Europe. A review section discusses the contribution
of rational choice theory to the analysis of conscription into military forces.