Stopping the Bloody Cycle of Civil Wars: The Effect of Specific Regime Type on Civil War Recurrence

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Jordan, Jennifer A.
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
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  • This paper investigates which specific regime type is best able to prevent civil war recurrence. I theorize that due to the different levels of citizen involvement in each regime type, a regime such as a Consensus Democracy with a high level of citizen involvement will be less vulnerable to rebellion than a regime with low levels of citizen involvement, such as a Strongman Autocracy. I find that the only regime type significantly correlated with the outbreak of civil war in a post-conflict state is the Strongman regime. Among the autocratic-leaning regimes, I am unable to find any significant results for the personalistic and militaristic factors. Among the democratic-leaning regimes, I am also unable to find any significant results for the four institutions and democracy consensus scores. Overall, I fount that it is less important to have a regime that is best at preventing conflict recurrence, but rather more important to avoid the regime type – Strongman Autocracies – that are worst at preventing conflict recurrence.
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  • Gent, Stephen
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  • Bachelor of Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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