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Rebel constituencies and rebel violence against civilians in civil conflicts
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Abstract This article examines how the civilian constituencies of rebel groups affect their use of violence
against civilians. While past research has acknowledged the importance of rebel constituencies,
they are primarily seen as only having an indirect effect on rebel behavior. In this study, I conceptua... mehr
This article examines how the civilian constituencies of rebel groups affect their use of violence
against civilians. While past research has acknowledged the importance of rebel constituencies,
they are primarily seen as only having an indirect effect on rebel behavior. In this study, I conceptualize
rebel constituencies as central political opportunity structures for rebel groups providing
incentives and imposing restraints on their use of strategic violence and the violent behavior of
individual rebel fighters. In particular, I hypothesize that a constituency overlap between rebels
and the government of a state acts as a restraint making large-scale violence against civilians less
likely. In contrast, high levels of constituency fractionalization and polarization induce strategic violence
and predatory behavior, increasing the chances of large-scale civilian victimization. I conduct
a statistical analysis of rebel one-sided violence in sub-Saharan Africa using newly collected data
on rebel constituencies to test these hypotheses. The results only provide limited empirical support
for the hypothesized relationship between constituency overlap and rebel violence against
civilians. There is clear empirical evidence, however, that heavily fractionalized and polarized rebel
constituencies are associated with higher levels of violence against civilians.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
statistische Analyse; institutionelle Faktoren; Akteur; Abstimmung; Konfliktsituation; strukturelle Gewalt; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Herrschaftssicherung; Zivilbevölkerung; Legitimation; Wahl; Konfliktbereitschaft; Viktimisierung; Gewaltbereitschaft
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
Civil conflict; rebel groups; rebel constituencies; violence against civilians
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 1-25
Zeitschriftentitel
Conflict Management and Peace Science (2015)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894215570428
ISSN
1549-9219
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung
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