Publication: Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies
| creativeworkseries.issn | 1564-698X | |
| dc.contributor.author | Keefer, Philip | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-30T07:12:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-30T07:12:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The inability of political actors to make credible promises to broad segments of society—a previously unexplored determinant of civil war—causes both elected and unelected governments to pursue public policies that leave citizens worse off and more prone to revolt. Noncredible political actors are also less able to build counterinsurgency capacity. Popular dissatisfaction with rulers reduces the costs to counterinsurgents of overthrowing regimes, discouraging rulers from building counterinsurgency capacity in the first place; lack of credibility prevents rulers from writing contracts with counterinsurgents that maximize counterinsurgency effort. Empirical tests across numerous subsamples using various measures of political credibility support the conclusion that broad political credibility ranks at least as high as social fractionalization and natural resource rents as a cause of conflict. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/4471 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1564-698X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4471 | |
| dc.publisher | World Bank | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo | |
| dc.subject | armed conflict | |
| dc.subject | civil war | |
| dc.subject | conflict | |
| dc.subject | counterinsurgency | |
| dc.subject | International Bank | |
| dc.subject | Peace | |
| dc.subject | Peace Research | |
| dc.subject | rebel | |
| dc.subject | Reconstruction | |
| dc.subject | violent conflict | |
| dc.title | Insurgency and Credible Commitment in Autocracies and Democracies | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type | Article de journal | fr |
| dc.type | ArtÃculo de revista | es |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea | Fragility, Conflict, and Violence | |
| okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-05-06T11:13:18.843483Z | |
| okr.doctype | Journal Article | |
| okr.globalpractice | Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience | |
| okr.globalpractice | Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management | |
| okr.globalpractice | Poverty | |
| okr.globalpractice | Health, Nutrition, and Population | |
| okr.identifier.report | 1 | |
| okr.language.supported | en | |
| okr.pagenumber | 33 | |
| okr.pagenumber | 61 | |
| okr.pdfurl | wber_22_1_33.pdf | en |
| okr.peerreview | Academic Peer Review | |
| okr.region.country | Guatemala | |
| okr.region.country | Uganda | |
| okr.region.country | Lebanon | |
| okr.region.country | Sri Lanka | |
| okr.region.country | Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of | |
| okr.region.country | North Macedonia (Formerly the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) | |
| okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | |
| okr.topic | Poverty Reduction | |
| okr.topic | Conflict and Development::Post Conflict Reconstruction | |
| okr.topic | Health, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies | |
| okr.topic | Economic Theory and Research | |
| okr.topic | Social Development::Social Conflict and Violence | |
| okr.topic | Services and Transfers to Poor | |
| okr.volume | 22 | |
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