Targeting Quality or Quantity? The Divergent Effects of Targeting Upper Verses Lower-Tier Leaders of Militant Organizations
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DOI: 10.1177/00220027221126080
Abstract: Research on the efficacy of leadership decapitation has focused primarily on targeting the topmost leaders of groups. Yet, most organizations rely on multiple leaders with specific functional or geographical responsibilities, rather than a single symbolic… read more here.
Keywords: targeting quality; tier leaders; militant organizations; leadership ... See more keywords
Reconceptualizing resistance organizations and outcomes: Introducing the Revolutionary and Militant Organizations dataset (REVMOD)
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DOI: 10.1177/0022343319835888
Abstract: In recent years, scholars of various forms of conflict involving revolutionary and militant organizations (such as terrorism, civil war, and nonviolent contestation) recognized that arbitrary organizational categories and typologies often leave large-N studies incomplete and… read more here.
Keywords: revolutionary militant; organizations dataset; resistance organizations; dataset revmod ... See more keywords