How Loyalty Trials Shape Allegiance to Political Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirko Reul (0000-0003-2306-0009, University of Lausanne, corresponding author), Ravi Bhavnani (0000-0001-6501-5682, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 178-206 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027231222004 |
| PMID | 39582779 |
| OpenAlex | W4390042627 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 75 |
“Loyalty trials” are common to a range of conflict settings, with consequences that range from harassment to imprisonment, torture, or death. Yet, they have received little if any attention as a general phenomenon in studies of state repression, civil war, or rebel governance, which focus on particular behaviors that authorities use to put people on trial, such as dissent, defection, and resistance. Using a computational model and data on the German Democratic Republic and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we focus on the dynamics of “loyalty trials” held to identify enemy collaborators—the interaction between expectations, perceptions, and behavior. We use our framework to explore the conditions under which trials result in widespread defection, as in the German Democratic Republic, or in conformity as illustrated by our study of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The polarizing nature of loyalty trials and the propensity to over- or under-identify threats to political order have notable implications for democratic and non-democratic societies alike
Allegiance · Criminology · Democracy · Imprisonment · Loyalty · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Agent-Based Models
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars
Modeling civil violence
The Functions of Social Conflict
Principles of Group Solidarity
The State of Exception
The Evolution and Reform of Palestinian Security Forces 1993–2013
Zwischen Überwachung und Repression — Politische Verfolgung in der DDR 1971 bis 1989
Verbrannte Erde
Living Emergency
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement
Defiance, Deterrence, and Irrelevance
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Rebelocracy
The Politics of Collective Violence
Power in Movement
Secularization as Conflict
Organizations at War
The Limits of Coercive Surveillance
Armed Groups and the Politics of Legitimacy
The Terrorism Delusion
Betrayal and Betrayers
Sparks and prairie fires
Arab American Protest in the Terror Decade
The role of categorization and in-group norms in judgments of groups and their members
The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs
Understanding Covert Repressive Action
A Theory of the Critical Mass. I. Interdependence, Group Heterogeneity, and the Production of Collective Action
Exit, Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic
Political Repression and the Destruction of Dissident Organizations
The Moral Hazard of Terrorism Prevention
Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing
Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
Exit, Resistance, Loyalty
Violence and Civilian Loyalties
The Impact of Domestic Surveillance on Political Imprisonment
Deterrence or Escalation
Undermining Resistance
Nonstate Actors, Fragmentation, and Conflict Processes
Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors
Rivalry and Revenge
Grievances, Mobilization, and Mass Opposition to Authoritarian Regimes
The Price of Collaboration
Retribution or Reconciliation? Post‐Conflict Attitudes toward Enemy Collaborators
Group Segregation and Urban Violence
Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes
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From Disaffection to Desertion
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Repression and Revolutionary Action
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Ethnic Defection in Civil War
Techniques of Neutralization
Micro-Level Studies of Violence in Civil War
Denunciation and Social Control
Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism
Preventive Repression
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Collective Sanctions and the Creation of Prisoner's Dilemma Norms
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |