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Hired Guns: Using Pro-Government Militias for Political Competition
- Source :
- Terrorism and Political Violence. 32:582-603
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2018.
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Abstract
- Pro-government militias (PGMs) are armed, political organizations that assist regime and state elites through illicit violence. This article considers how and where to situate militias within large...
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Government
Sociology and Political Science
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05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Democracy
0506 political science
Competition (economics)
Politics
Event data
State (polity)
Political economy
Political science
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
Political violence
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Safety Research
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15561836 and 09546553
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6c0f24395c037a01eaca764fb0dc6a12
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1388793