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Manpower to coerce and co-opt: state capacity and political violence in southern Sudan 2006-2010
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Abstract This paper investigates the role of state capacity for political violence. Most previous studies have
suffered from inadequacies of country-level data, questionable validity of indicators or theoretical
shortcomings. This paper aims at overcoming some of these challenges. We focus on one specific
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This paper investigates the role of state capacity for political violence. Most previous studies have
suffered from inadequacies of country-level data, questionable validity of indicators or theoretical
shortcomings. This paper aims at overcoming some of these challenges. We focus on one specific
aspect of state capacity: the role of governmental manpower. We argue that its subnational effect
on political violence follows a non-linear, inverted-U shape. We investigate this hypothesis in the
context of southern Sudan, covering the period from 2006 to 2010. We use unique data on the
geographical distribution of public personnel across 75 southern Sudanese counties. The data are
matched with geocoded data on violent events as well as various socio-economic indicators. Our
fixed-effects estimations indicate that particularly low or high levels of state capacity are associated
with low levels of violence. Counties with intermediate numbers of state personnel experience
the highest numbers of violent events.... view less
Keywords
public policy; public service; government control; capacity to act; South Sudan; East Africa; socioeconomic factors; political governance; political violence; political institution; propensity to violence
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 1-25
Journal
Conflict Management and Peace Science (2014)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894213520393
ISSN
1549-9219
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
With the permission of the rights owner, this publication is under open access due to a (DFG-/German Research Foundation-funded) national or Alliance license.