The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces

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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.