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Shelley Liu
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Assistant Prof of PubPol and PoliSci @ Duke University.
Statebuilding, conflict, development, African politics.
📚: Governing After War (bit.ly/govafterwar)
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📚🚨 My book, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding", will be out on Feb 22 and avail for pre-order! bit.ly/govafterwar

❓: how does rebel governance & social control shape rebel victors' post-war strategies for consolidating power?
Book cover for "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding" by Shelley X. Liu, published by Oxford University Press.
January 22, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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🥳🚨 Excited to share my paper, "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control," cond. accepted at @thejop.bsky.social (paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
I ask:❓How does rebel governance affect political development when rebel parties win power? #polisky 🧵 1/4
Ex-rebels govern almost a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa today. How does war affect these countries' long-run political development, and what explains their rebel regimes' longevity? The paper explores the role of coercion in rebel governance: post-war governance draws from wartime strategies, which helps to explain (1) the continued use of organized coercion in post-war politics when faced with challenges to ruling party dominance, and (2) where such coercion is most effectively employed. I examine Zimbabwe where the anti-colonial rebel party has remained in power since 1980. I rely on archival data to qualitatively trace mechanisms, map pre-war to current-day administrative divisions, and code a measure of wartime governance. I combine these data with Afrobarometer surveys to demonstrate long-run subnational variation in coercive political control. Findings deepen our understanding of war’s effects on peacetime politics and provide one explanation for infrequent political turnovers
November 20, 2023 at 4:23 PM