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He views the penetration of retired officers into politics as ‘another non-formal mechanism of role expansion in Israel’.
Nor do they displace government prerogative - politics can trump partnership.
Open accessJournal Article
Steve Corbett, Michael J. Davidson 
22 Dec 2009-Parameters
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Finally, the authors posit that active and public participation of retired military officers in partisan politics, in their capacity as retired military officers, should be discouraged as potentially damaging to the US armed forces in both material and philosophical ways.
Specifically, men who have egalitarian attitudes before retirement may act in accordance with these views when they are retired.
However, retired migrants are not merely passive spectators of formal rights and policies.
Board independence mandates should be retired because they are inefficient at best and damaging at worst.
The rather striking success of three such groups—the American Association of Retired Persons-National Retired Teachers Association, the National Council of Senior Citizens and the National Association of Retired Federal Employees—can be analyzed in terms of their having found sources of income outside member dues, having created bureaucracies re cruited on the basis of performance criteria rather than charisma and having capitalized effectively on the emergence in recent years of a more benign climate for old age activity.
Furthermore, state-level civics exams can positively affect knowledge about politics and government.
Most are unlikely to join the DAC, but the international donor community can still encourage reporting and disclosure.
Current and former members differ in their reasons to join or not to join the KNA.