Where the Insurgents Aren’t

Rurality, Information, and Nonterritorial Insurgency

Bibliographic Data

ID6284391
AuthorsThomas M Dolan (0000-0003-0889-4996, University of Central Florida, corresponding author), Clayton Besaw (0000-0002-1073-3078, University of Central Florida), Joseph Butler (0000-0001-6309-3716, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA), J Michael Butler (University of the Pacific)
Year2018
Volume62
Issue6
Pages1262-1283
Publication date2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002716678985
OpenAlexW2564215169
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited35

Scholars often find that highlands and rural areas foster insurgencies. However, others have argued that cities can also be centers of insurgent activity and that nonterritorial insurgencies are different from territorial guerilla wars. We expect that in a nonterritorial insurgency, the high quality of local knowledge makes populated rural areas inhospitable to nonterritorial insurgent activity. Using data from a random sample of about 750 Médaille de la Résistance Française recipients, we find that departments with more residents in cities and large towns had more medal recipients than rural departments. Analyses of repression patterns (finding that insurgent arrests are less likely in cities than rural areas) and the historical record provide further evidence for the information mechanism

Geography · Insurgency · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Political Conflict and Governance

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