Beyond Patriots and Traitors: Collaborations and Resistance in Iraq, 2003-2005

Miller, Nicholas L.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2327699

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“…Second, the finding that domestic political factors play a key role in conditioning responses to foreign rule suggests the importance of moving beyond macro-level variables that affect the occupied territory equally, such as nationalism, and towards an awareness of political factors that may discourage or stimulate resistance at the local level. When coupled with other recent literature (Collard-Wexler 2013; Kocher, Lawrence, and Monteiro 2013; Miller 2013), the evidence suggests an emerging consensus: political divisions within occupied territories matter and play a critical role in determining subsequent levels of resistance.…”

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Political Devolution and Resistance to Foreign Rule: A Natural Experiment

Ferwerda¹,

Miller²

2014

Am Polit Sci Rev

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D o foreign occupiers face less resistance when they increase the level of native governing authority?Although this is a central question within the literature on foreign occupation and insurgency, it is difficult to answer because the relationship between resistance and political devolution is typically endogenous. To address this issue, we identify a natural experiment based on the locally arbitrary assignment of French municipalities into German or Vichy-governed zones during World War II. Using a regression discontinuity design, we conclude that devolving governing authority significantly lowered levels of resistance. We argue that this effect is driven by a process of political cooptation: domestic groups that were granted governing authority were less likely to engage in resistance activity, while violent resistance was heightened in regions dominated by groups excluded from the governing regime. This finding stands in contrast to work that primarily emphasizes structural factors or nationalist motivations for resistance.

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confidence: 52%