Replication Data for \"Rusty Guns and Buttery Soldiers: Unemployment and Transatlantic Burden-Shifting\"

Scholars and practitioners continue to debate burden-sharing in transatlantic defense. Little research, however, has analyzed the domestic drivers of burden-sharing behavior; even less has disaggregated defense spending to measure burden-sharing more precisely. This paper enhances understanding of the relationship between national political economies and burden-shifting, operationalizing burden-shifting as the extent to which a country limits or decreases defense expenditures, while at the same time favoring personnel over modernization and readiness in the composition of defense budgets. Governments slightly decrease top-line defense spending in response to unemployment, while shifting much more significant amounts within defense budgets out of equipment and into personnel. This research highlights the intimate connection between Europe’s economic fortunes, transatlantic security, and burden-sharing in NATO and the EU. It also points policy analysists toward factors more amenable to political decisions than the structural variables generally associated with burden-sharing, bridging significant gaps between defense economics and security studies.