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.学界与实务界始终围绕跨大西洋防务的责任分担议题展开辩论。然而，现有研究极少剖析防务责任分担行为的国内驱动因素，更鲜有研究通过拆解国防开支以更精准地衡量责任分担水平。本文深化了对各国政治经济与防务责任转移之间关联的认知，并将防务责任转移操作化定义为：一国限制或削减国防开支总额的程度，同时在国防预算结构中优先保障人员开支而非装备现代化与战备水平建设。各国政府会针对失业率上升小幅削减国防开支总额，同时在国防预算内部完成规模更为可观的结构调整：将装备开支转向人员开支领域。本研究揭示了欧洲经济态势、跨大西洋安全与北大西洋公约组织（NATO）及欧洲联盟（EU）框架下防务责任分担之间的紧密关联；同时，相较于通常与责任分担挂钩的结构性变量，本研究为政策分析师指明了更易受政治决策影响的影响因素，弥合了防务经济学与安全研究之间的显著研究鸿沟。