Network competition and civilian targeting during civil conflict
Dorff, Cassy and Gallop, Max and Minhas, Shahryar (2023) Network competition and civilian targeting during civil conflict. British Journal of Political Science, 53 (2). pp. 441-459. ISSN 0007-1234 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000321)
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Abstract
Building on recent developments in the literature, this article addresses a prominent research question in the study of civil conflict: what explains violence against civilians? We use a novel computational model to investigate the strategic incentives for victimization in a network setting; one that incorporates civilians' strategic behavior. We argue that conflicts with high network competition - where conflict between any two actors is more likely - lead to higher rates of civilian victimization, irrespective of the conflict's overall intensity or total number of actors. We test our theory in a cross-national setting using event data to generate measures of both conflict intensity and network density. Empirical analysis supports our model's finding that conflict systems with high levels of network competition are associated with a higher level of violence against the civilian population.
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Dorff, Cassy, Gallop, Max ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-4301 and Minhas, Shahryar;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 85836 Dates: DateEvent3 April 2023Published3 November 2022Published Online14 June 2022AcceptedSubjects: Political Science Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Jun 2023 14:16 Last modified: 05 Dec 2024 01:22 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/85836