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Combatant recruitment and the outcome of war
| dc.creator | Mahmud, Ahmed-Saber | |
| dc.creator | Vargas Duque, Juan Fernando | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-11T15:37:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-11T15:37:32Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2015-09 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Why do some civil wars terminate soon, with victory of one party over the other? What determines if the winner is the incumbent or the rebel group? Why do other conáicts last longer? We propose a simple model in which the power of each armed group depends on the number of combatants it is able to recruit. This is in turn a function of the relative ëdistanceíbetween group leaderships and potential recruits. We emphasize the moral hazard problem of recruitment: Öghting is costly and risky so combatants have the incentive to defect from their task. They can also desert altogether and join the enemy. This incentive is stronger the farther away the Öghter is from the principal, since monitoring becomes increasingly costly. Bigger armies have more power but less monitoring capacity to prevent defection and desertion. This general framework allows a variety of interpretations of what type of proximity matters for building strong cohesive armies ranging from ethnic distance to geographic dispersion. Di§erent assumptions about the distribution of potential Öghters along the relevant dimension of conáict lead to di§erent equilibria. We characterize these, discuss the implied outcome in terms of who wins the war, and illustrate with historical and contemporaneous case studies. | eng |
| dc.format.extent | 19 páginas | spa |
| dc.format.medium | Recurso electrónico | spa |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.format.tipo | Documento | spa |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10999 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10999 | |
| dc.language.iso | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.publisher.department | Facultad de Economía | spa |
| dc.relation.citationTitle | Serie Documentos de trabajo. Economía | |
| dc.relation.uri | https://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000092/005029.html | |
| dc.rights.accesRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.acceso | Abierto (Texto completo) | spa |
| dc.rights.cc | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia | spa |
| dc.source.instname | instname:Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.source.instname | instname:Universidad del Rosario | spa |
| dc.source.reponame | reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR | spa |
| dc.subject.ddc | Sociología & antropología | |
| dc.subject.lemb | Conflicto armado::Condiciones Sociales | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Conflicto armado -- Crítica e interpretación -- Colombia | spa |
| dc.subject.lemb | Conflicto armado -- investigaciones | spa |
| dc.title | Combatant recruitment and the outcome of war | spa |
| dc.type | workingPaper | eng |
| dc.type.hasVersion | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion | |
| dc.type.spa | Documento de trabajo | spa |
