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Author Arjona, Ana

Title Rebelocracy : Social Order in the Colombian Civil War
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (432 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Contents Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms; 1 Introduction; Civilian-combatant Interactions, Wartime Institutions, and the Study of Civil War; A Theory of Social Order in Civil War; Research Design; Looking Ahead; 2 Wartime Social Order: What Is It and How Does It Vary?; Defining Wartime Social Order; A Typology of Wartime Social Order; Assessing the Quality of the Typology; Current Understanding of Rebel Governance and Collective Civilian Resistance
3 A Theory of Social Order in Civil WarThe Argument; Assumptions; Long-Term Horizons and the Emergence of Order; Short-Term Horizons and the Emergence of Disorder; Rebelocracy and Civilian Cooperation; Rebelocracy and the Byproducts of Control; The Costs of Running a Rebelocracy; Aliocracy and Civilian Resistance; A Theory of Collective Civilian Resistance to Rebelocracy; Relaxing Assumptions; Caveats; Conclusion; 4 Research Design: Studying War Zones in Colombia; A Study of Colombia: Advantages and Limitations; The Colombian Armed Conflict: An Overview
The FARC, the ELN, and the ParamilitariesEmpirical Strategy; Advantages and Limitations of the Research Design; Conclusion; 5 The Determinants of Social Order; Reconstructing the History of Local Communities in War Zones; Sample and Data-Gathering Methods; The Determinants of Order; The Determinants of Rebelocracy and Aliocracy; Conclusion; 6 Creating Rebelocracy, Aliocracy, and Disorder; The Process of Creating Social Order in War Zones; Community Structure and Armed Groups' Strategies; Measuring and Describing Order and Disorder, Rebelocracy and Aliocracy
The Creation of Rebelocracy in War ZonesLife under Rebelocracy; Collective Resistance, Bargaining, and the Paths to Aliocracy; The Paths to Disorder; Collective Civilian Resistance; Conclusion; 7 How Local Institutions Matter: A Process-Driven Natural Experiment ; Life in the Coffee Haciendas; An Agrarian Movement Is Born; Institutional Innovations in the Struggle for Land; Self-Governance: Institutions to Preserve Public Order and Adjudicate Disputes; Zama, Tellus, and Librea: Divergence in Local Institutions; Comparing Processes across Villages; The FARC in Tellus and Librea
The FARC in ZamaCivilian Resistance; A New Wave of Violence: The Paramilitaries Attack in Viotá; Causal Inference: The Effect of Institutional Quality; Conclusion; 8 Testing the Microfoundations: Social Order and Recruitment; Who Joins Rebel Movements?; Wartime Social Order and Recruitment; Evidence on Communities in War Zones; Evidence on Joiners and Nonjoiners; Conclusion; 9 Conclusion; Caveats; Scope Conditions and External Validity; Implications; Appendix 1 Fieldwork and Sources of Empirical Evidence; Appendix 2 Supplemental Materials for Chapter 5
Summary Based on years of fieldwork in Colombia, this is an analysis of rebel institutions and civilian-combatant relations in civil war
Notes Appendix 3 Supplementary Materials for Chapter 6
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-385) and index
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Subject Social structure -- Colombia -- History
Terrorists -- Colombia -- History
Civil war -- Colombia -- History
Alienation -- Columbia -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
Civil war
Politics and government
Social structure
Terrorists
SUBJECT Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1974- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028520
Subject Colombia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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