Rebel Governance and Civilian Abuse: Comparing Liberia's Rebels Using Satellite Data

摘要: Rebel groups exhibit signicant variation in their treatment of civilians, with profound humanitarian consequences. This paper proposes a new theory rebel group behavior based on resources and delegation within organizations. leaders have incentives to maintain order territories but are constrained ability control members. Leaders establish through spot payments promises future rewards top commanders. The leader’s oer these is determined by the group’s partnerships external patrons. theory’s implications examined spatial analysis Liberia’s civil war using an original dataset derived remote sensing methods.