Minerva Research Initiative Project

The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of the US Military’s Overseas Deployments

This page is dedicated to our Minerva Research Initiative project: The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of the US Military’s Overseas Deployments (Grant # W911NF-18-1-0087).

Research Team

• Michael E. Flynn
• Michael A. Allen
• Carla Martinez Machain
• Andrew Stravers

Application Documents

You can find a copy of our white paper and fully length proposals here.

• White Paper
• Full Proposal

Data Documentation

• Codebook for Survey
• Codebook for Protest Data
• Codebook for Military Expenditures

Datasets

Survey Data

• Years 1-3 Data Combined (Current)
• Year 2 Data (Outdated)
• Year 1 Data (Outdated)

Military Spending

• Deployment Cost Data
• Military Construction Data
  • Also see the {troopdata} package for most up-to-date military construction spending data.

Research Publications

• Allen, Michael A., Michael E. Flynn, Carla Martinez Machain, and Andrew Stravers. 2020. Outside the wire: US military deployments and public opinion in host states. American Political Science Review. 114(2): 326-341.