ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the discussion of secondary laws of politics, those driving state expansion, by exploring the relationship between, on the one hand, the regime. The comm-soc type spends more than any other, followed by the democracies, then the civilian autocrats and, in last place, the military dictatorships. Perhaps, too, as was hypothesized about Latin America, the region contributing the largest number of such autocracies in this study, military regimes had no positive program of their own. Observe that CENE, the region blanketed throughout the entire period by comm-soc dictatorships, outspent some by two and the rest by all three measures. Military autocracies spend less than civil or comm-soc dictatorships, and parliamentary democracies more than presidential ones. In summary, the bulk of the evidence presented in this chapter seems to support the notion that states, particularly those ruled by comm-soc regimes, expand beyond what one would expect, as per Wagner's Law, by wealth alone.
