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1 online resource |
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Studies in government and public policy |
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Studies in government and public policy.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Illustrations, Photos, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Pentagon's Pension Crisis -- 2. Reimagining Autonomous Policy Subsystems -- 3. A Subsystem History of Military Pension Policy -- 4. The Subsystem Strikes Back -- 5. Subsystems, Signals, and Stovepipes -- 6. Retirement Reform for the Twenty-First Century -- 7. The All-Volunteer Force and Implications for the Future -- Appendix A: Military Personnel Policy Subsystem Players -- Appendix B: Under Secretaries of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (2001-2020) -- Appendix C: 2015 Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
"For nearly seventy years, the military retirement policy remained unchanged-requiring retirees to serve twenty years in order to receive the military's highly desirable, traditional, defined-benefit pension. How has it remained so durable for so long, and what needs to change as the military adapts to the twenty-first century? Brandon J. Archuleta explores the history and development of the military pension through the lens of the autonomous policy subsystem. Through extensive fieldwork and interviews with sixty policymaking elites-including congressional staffers, veterans' lobbyists, blue ribbon commissioners, and even senior Pentagon policymakers-Twenty Years of Service gets inside the military personnel policy subsystem and reveals how these institutions managed to monopolize military retirement policy by maintaining the rigid status quo. Archuleta's research reveals major organizational issues that have significant bureaucratic and policy implications for the Pentagon. Congress and veterans' groups have been able to dominate the policymaking process, undermining the military's ability to adapt to a new policy environment. As the military aims to attract the next generation of young recruits for the twenty-first century All-Volunteer Force, Twenty Years of Service is a timely and relevant contribution to the field with lessons for scholars and policymakers wrestling with the future of American defense policy." |
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Military pensions -- United States.
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Veterans -- Services for -- United States -- History
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United States.
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20th Century.
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HISTORY.
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Military.
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Armed Forces -- Salaries, etc.
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Military pensions
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Veterans -- Services for
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United States -- Armed Forces -- Pay, allowances, etc.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780700629770 |
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0700629777 |
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