Pragmatic and Promiscuous: Explaining the Rise of Competitive Political ...

decentralization, political militias have become one of the main agents of political violence. By some measures, their actions account for a third of recent conflict.1 This article argues that militias operate as private armies for a range of political elites, and this activity has increased as democratization encourages competition and ................
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