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Predicting Pro-Government Militia Ac...

Abdelrahman, Nawar Omer Abdelmagid.

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Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis./
作者:	Abdelrahman, Nawar Omer Abdelmagid.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	191 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10256084
ISBN:	9781369780963

Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis.
Abdelrahman, Nawar Omer Abdelmagid.

Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 191 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2017.

This dissertation investigates the conditions that prompt governments to devolve security functions, often surreptitiously, to privately operated militias whose activities they cannot fully control rather than consolidating the monopoly over the legal use of coercive force exclusively within the formal security apparatus and the semi-official paramilitary appendages of the state. The study aims to effectively contribute to the still nascent quantitative literature on pro-government militias by providing a framework for predictive analysis and by adding layers of epistemological depth to this literature.

ISBN: 9781369780963Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

Predicting Pro-Government Militia Activity: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis.
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520 $a This study is unique in that it approaches the question of the symbiotic relationship between the state and pro-government militias from a different angle than the one espoused throughout most of the recent quantitative political literature. Scholars have focused on what accounts for the diffusion of these private armed groups throughout the world in various political and socio-economic contexts; this dissertation focuses instead on the state as a sovereign institution, and what accounts for the fact that such an entity, wielding legitimate power over coercive force, would opt to devolve authority to non-state combatants over whom it has limited control. The concept of devolution of violence specifically refers to the decentralization of command and control over the use of force that occurs due to this transfer of authority.
520 $a The main objective of this dissertation is thus to probe the predictive factors that underlie the empowerment of less-controlled private militias by state authorities, in order to reach an understanding of how to curb or to mitigate the effects of this deleterious phenomenon. This study aspires to present empirically-based policy recommendations in this regard.
520 $a This study adds a number of major contributions to the political literature. The first one is the introduction of a new taxonomy of pro-government militias that encompasses three sub-categories: semi-official militias, informal militias, and private military firms. These groups are incorporated as one overarching genre due to the fact that, despite minor distinguishing characteristics, they represent different facets of the same phenomenon. They are analogous in three respects: they all represent outside-the-norm extensions to the legal security apparatus of the state; they are all motivated by exclusive group self-interest as opposed to the general public good; and they are all political instruments whose aim is to enhance regime efficiency or to secure the incumbent leadership.
520 $a Moreover, this dissertation establishes a categorization of PGM sub-types based on the relative autonomy they maintain vis a vis the formal executive command of the state; and the consequent degree of devolution of authority the state undertakes in associating with them. Because they operate closer to the purview of the state and under its guidance and supervision, this analysis categorizes semi-official militias as representing the exemplar embodiment of "controlled devolution of violence". In contrast, private military firms and informal militias maneuver under far greater prerogative of action and minimal state supervision; as such, this study deems that they quintessentially represent "less-controlled devolution of violence".
520 $a Overall, the detailed definition of the outcome variable, the carefully selected predictors, and the refined estimation technique allow this dissertation to generate a considerable wealth of information regarding controlled, and less-controlled PGM activity. Most substantively, it reveals that the deterrents of less-controlled devolution of violence include: respect for human political rights, effective political performance, as well as the timely coincidence of democracy and effective political performance. Consequently, these are the policy objectives that states should aspire to realize in order to curb the empowerment of less-controlled PGMs. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).
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