How Institutional Design Shapes Defense-Industrial Offset Outcomes
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Discovery of the day · Political Science
The Institutional Sources of Defense-Industrial Policy—Evidence from Poland
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Political Science · Defense Policy
Discovery of the day
This study demonstrates that the structure of defense procurement institutions—specifically which ministry oversees offset agreements—is a decisive factor in shaping defense-industrial policy outcomes. Analyzing two Polish fighter aircraft acquisitions, the author shows that when economic development ministries hold an independent decision-making seat, countries secure substantially larger offset packages, whereas placing offsets entirely within the Ministry of Defense leads to streamlined but smaller agreements focused purely on military optimization. For your work as a public servant with expertise in procurement and a thinker interested in how institutional arrangements drive policy, this finding reveals a powerful causal lever: bureaucratic structure itself, not just strategic interest, dictates the scale and character of multi-billion-dollar state commitments.
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