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| Shelf |
ART/16746 |
| Title |
Generals, dictators, and kings : authoritarian regimes and civil conflict, 1973-2004. - |
| Printed in |
Conflict management and peace science ; vol. 27, no. 3 |
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p. 195-218 |
| Year |
20100700 |
| Language |
eng |
| Link |
 Full text (free to in-house users)
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| Subject Term |
political systems | authoritarianism | repression | torture | civil war | comparison | determinants |
| Subject place |
universal |
| Author |
Fjelde, Hanne |
| Contents |
Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge of literature examining how political institutions influence the risk of civil conflict. A comparatively neglected aspect of this debate has been the heterogeneous impact of different forms of authoritarianism. In this article, I theoretically and empirically unpack the authoritarian regime category. I argue that authoritarian regimes differ both in their capacity to forcefully control opposition and in their ability to co-opt their rivals through offers of power positions and rents. Authoritarian regimes thus exhibit predictable differences in their ability to avoid organized violent challenges to their authority. I examine the association between four types of authoritarian regimes—military, monarchy, single-party, and multi-party electoral autocracies—and the onset of civil conflict from 1973 to 2004. I find that military regimes and multi-party electoral autocracies run a higher risk of armed conflict than single-party authoritarian regimes, which on the other hand seem to have an institutional set-up that makes them particularly resilient to armed challenges to their authority. These findings suggest that the emerging view, that political institutions are not a significant determinant of civil conflict, results from treating a heterogeneous set of authoritarian regimes as homogenous. |
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