Recruiting Rebels
Introducing the Rebel Appeals and Incentives Dataset
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Soules (0000-0002-0080-2148, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1811-1837 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| 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 Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027231154813 |
| OpenAlex | W4318829185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 68 |
There is an extensive body of literature examining how rebel groups recruit civilians. Much of this scholarly work focuses on the role of material and ideological appeals in mobilizing recruits. However, despite expectations about the importance of recruitment processes, there is currently a lack of data on the persuasive recruitment practices of a large cross-section of groups, making it difficult to test a variety of implications stemming from theories about armed group recruitment. To remedy this, I developed original data—the Rebel Appeals and Incentives Dataset (RAID)—which contains information on 232 militant groups for the period 1989 to 2011. RAID details not only the specific types of recruitment appeals groups make, but the degree to which they rely on ideological appeals, relative to material incentives, for recruitment. To demonstrate the value of the dataset, I employ RAID to test two hypotheses about rebel recruitment and wartime rape derived from existing literature
Economics · Ideology · Incentive · Microeconomics · Militant · Political science · Politics · Public relations · RAID · Test (biology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Rebel group legitimacy, ideology and durable peace
Rebel responses to disasters in conflict zones
Armed group proliferation and conflict dynamics
Magically powerful leaders and the resilience of rebel groups
Is There a Rebel Resource Curse? Ideological Appeals, Material Incentives, and the Success of Rebel Organizations
Rebels With Too Many Causes
A Call to Arms
Why the world still fails to end conflict-related sexual violence 30 years after the Beijing declaration
How wartime recruitment affects political engagement among civilians
Sexual Violence Against Men in Civil Conflict
Secessionism and Wartime Sexual Violence
Environmental displacement and political instability
The magical practices of rebel organizations
The Emotional Benefits of Insurgency in El Salvador
The Commander's Dilemma
Rape during Civil War
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Workers, Warriors, and Criminals
On economic causes of civil war
Who Wins?
Rules for Rebels
How Insurgency Begins
Child Soldiers
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict
Greed and grievance in civil war
The Rebel's Dilemma
Why Women Rebel
Bargaining with Insurgencies in the Shadow of Infighting
The politics of counting and reporting conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence
Live to Win Another Day
The effect of sexual violence on negotiated outcomes in civil conflicts
Terrorism in armed conflict
Non-state actors in civil wars
Rebel command and control, time, and rebel group splits
The Banality of “Ethnic War
Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups
Criminal Rebels? A Discussion of Civil War and Criminality from the Colombian Experience
Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War
Practical Ideology in Militant Organizations
What Makes Rational Peasants Revolutionary? Dilemma, Paradox, and Irony in Peasant Collective Action
Rebel Leader Ascension and Wartime Sexual Violence
It Takes Two
Resources and the Information Problem in Rebel Recruitment
Recruitment and Allegiance
Rebel Recruitment and Migration
True Believers, Deserters, and Traitors
When Organizations Rebel
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds
Civil War as State-Making
Rumors, Kinship Networks, and Rebel Group Formation
Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War
Good Times and Bad Apples
Why They Leave
Rebel Mobilization through Pandering
Oil and the Probability of Rebel Participation Among Youths in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
Introducing Role
Twisting arms and sending messages
Funding rebellion
Organized violence 1989-2020, with a special emphasis on Syria
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945-2012
Sexual violence in armed conflict
Women on the frontline
How and when armed conflicts end
Armed Conflict 1946-2001
Reconceptualizing resistance organizations and outcomes
Ethnicity and civil war
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence
The rise of rebel contenders
The commander's dilemma
Women's Participation in Violent Political Organizations
Explaining Rape during Civil War
Organizing Rebellion
Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Armed Groups and Sexual Violence
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |