State Capacity, Regime Type, and Sustaining the Peace after Civil War

Autor: J. Michael Greig, T. David Mason
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: International Interactions. 43:967-993
ISSN: 1547-7444
0305-0629
DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2017.1260012
Popis: About half of the nations that experience civil war eventually relapse into renewed conflict within a few years after the original war ends. This observation has motivated a stream of research into the factors that affect the risk of peace failure in the aftermath of civil war. While the outcome of the previous civil war—for example, military victory versus peace agreement—structures the post-war environment in ways that affect the risk of peace failure, the capacity of the post-war state to enact and implement policies that affect the incentives for and capacity of groups to undertake armed violence as a means of advancing their interests should also affect the risks of peace failure. Using Geddes’ categories of nondemocratic regime types, we will present a theory of how different regime types have varying capacities to repress and/or implement accommodative policies that affect the risk of peace failure. We test propositions derived from this theory with a series of event history models. Our fin...
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