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Rebels, Revenue and Redistribution: The Political Geography of Post-Conflict Power-Sharing in Africa
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Abstract Do rebel elites who gain access to political power through power-sharing reward their own ethnic constituencies after war? The authors argue that power-sharing governments serve as instruments for rebel elites to access state resources. This access allows elites to allocate state resources dispropor... mehr
Do rebel elites who gain access to political power through power-sharing reward their own ethnic constituencies after war? The authors argue that power-sharing governments serve as instruments for rebel elites to access state resources. This access allows elites to allocate state resources disproportionately to their regional power bases, particularly the settlement areas of rebel groups' ethnic constituencies. To test this proposition, the authors link information on rebel groups in power-sharing governments in post-conflict countries in Africa to information about ethnic support for rebel organizations. They combine this information with sub-national data on ethnic groups' settlement areas and data on night light emissions to proxy for sub-national variation in resource investments. Implementing a difference-in-differences empirical strategy, the authors show that regions with ethnic groups represented through rebels in the power-sharing government exhibit higher levels of night light emissions than regions without such representation. These findings help to reconceptualize post-conflict power-sharing arrangements as rent-generating and redistributive institutions.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Afrika; Staat; Regierung; Staatsorgan; Gesellschaft; Entwicklung; Struktur; Bevölkerungsgruppe; Konflikt; ethnische Gruppe; politische Macht; Verteilungspolitik; Ressourcen; Allokation; politische Ökonomie; Verteilungskonflikt; Wahlkreis; politische Elite; Klientelismus; Guerilla
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 981-1001
Zeitschriftentitel
British Journal of Political Science, 51 (2021) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000474
ISSN
1469-2112
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)