Democracy on the Battlefield? Why Armed Groups Hold Elections
dc.contributor.sponsor | Bush School of Government and Public Service | |
dc.creator | Huang, Reyko | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-15T16:15:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-15T16:15:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08 | |
dc.description | Armed rebel groups, by definition, use violence to fight against the state in efforts to take over the central government or achieve independent statehood. And yet, this simple view of rebel groups as belligerents belies the fact that they engage in a wide range of non-violent political projects as part of their militant campaigns. Among them, one phenomenon stands out as being particularly arresting given the wartime context: many rebel groups hold popular elections during war. What explains this behavior? | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/196706 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Volume 13;Issue 5 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | rebel elections | en_US |
dc.title | Democracy on the Battlefield? Why Armed Groups Hold Elections | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
local.department | Other | en_US |