Actor proliferation and the fragmentation of violent groups in conflict

This paper proposes a novel application of a measure of actor fragmentation drawn from electoral studies to the growing field of conflict event data. The application facilitates comparison of conflict environments over time and across cases, while enabling researchers to take account of the relative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caitriona Dowd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-09-01
Series:Research & Politics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168015607891