@article{ref1,
title="Up in arms! Explaining why ethnic minority organizations form militias in transitioning and post-communist Eurasian countries",
journal="Conflict management and peace science",
year="2017",
author="Asal, Victor and Early, Bryan R. and Schulzke, Marcus",
volume="34",
number="5",
pages="485-506",
abstract="The decision by ethnic minority organizations (EMOs) to form militias is heavily influenced by the specific policies that governments adopt towards them. We theorize that, when a government makes an EMO illegal or subjects it to repression, those actions substantially increase the EMO s incentives to invest in creating an institutionalized capacity for violence. We test our theory via a quantitative analysis of militia formation using a sample population of 261 EMOs within transitioning and post-communist Eurasian countries from 1989 to 2006. Our results indicate that EMOs are far more likely to form militias if they have been repressed and/or made illegal by their governments.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0738-8942",
doi="10.1177/0738894215600386",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894215600386"
}