TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Up in arms! Explaining why ethnic minority organizations form militias in transitioning and post-communist Eurasian countries
JO  - Conflict management and peace science
A1  - Asal, Victor
A1  - Early, Bryan R.
A1  - Schulzke, Marcus
SP  - 485
EP  - 506
VL  - 34
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0738-8942
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0738894215600386
ID  - ref1
ER  -