According to "the regime theory of civil-military relations," responsibilities for such relations are conditioned in every state by a nationally evolved regime of "principles, norms, rules an decision-making procedures around which actor expectations converge" in matters of civil-military relations. This article amplifies this theory by setting out a normative, Westminster-based model of the regime that provides the legal, regulatory, traditional, and institutional structures for civil-military relations in liberal democracies.
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