Governing for revolution : social transformation in civil war / Megan A. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Megan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhongguo gong chan dang--Influence.

Zhongguo gong chan dang.

Insurgency.

Political development.

Civil war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to enhance their organizational capacity, but this book demonstrates that some rebels undertake costly governance projects that can imperil their cadres during war. The origins for this choice began with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese Civil War. The CCP knowingly introduced challenging governance projects, but nevertheless propagated its strategy globally, creating a behavioural model readily available to later rebels. The likelihood of whether later rebels' will imitate this model is determined by the compatibility between their goals and the CCP's objectives; only rebels that share the CCP's revolutionary goals decide to mimic the CCP's governance fully. Over time, ideational and material pressures further encouraged (and occasionally rewarded) revolutionary rebels' conformity to the CCP's template. Using archival data from six countries, primary rebel sources, fieldwork and quantitative analysis, Governing for Revolution underscores the mimicry of and ultimate convergence in revolutionary rebels' governance, that persists even today, despite vast differences in ideology.

Contents:

Iron and blood : the global-historical context of rebel governance strategies

Rebel goals determine governance strategies

Research design and alternative explanations

The Eritrean liberation struggle : varying goals and varying governance

Changing goals and changing governance : the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Army

Modeling revolutionary governance in East Timor

Hezbollah : a jihadist adaptation of the Chinese model

Statistical analysis of rebel goals and rebel governance

Conclusion : looking forward by looking back.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Mar 2021).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108919555

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.