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The political economy of rural-urban conflict : predation, production, and peripheries
Yazar:
McDougal, Topher L. author
ISBN:
9780198792598
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xiv, 215 pages : figures ; 24 cm.
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Cover; The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I: The Political Economy of the Rural-Urban Interface; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Battle Lines Are Drawn; 1.2 Traders and Raiders; 1.3 The Stakes; 1.4 The Road Less Travelled; 1.5 The Road Map; References; 2: Production and Predation; 2.1 Town and Country; 2.2 Through the Looking Glass; 2.3 The Extensification-Intensification Dialectic; 2.3.1 Production, Predation, and the State; 2.3.2 The Stateś Economic (Un)doing; 2.3.3 Non-State Armed Actors 2.3.4 A Note on Epistemology2.4 A Simple Model of Rural-Urban Predation; 2.4.1 A Two-Region, Two-Sector Model; 2.4.2 The Formal Model; 2.4.3 Multiple Equilibria; References; Part II: Violence Acts on ProductionNetworks; 3: How Production Networks Adapted to Civil War in Liberia; 3.1 Why Study Liberian Industry?; 3.1.1 The Importance of Production Firms; 3.1.2 What We Can Glean from Past Studies; 3.2 Qualitative Research of Liberian Firms; 3.2.1 The Liberian Case; 3.2.2 Methods; 3.3 Dispersal Strategies in Production Networks; 3.3.1 Determinants of Predation Levels Proximity to the Combat FrontierRebel and Civilian Behavior; Value of the Targeted Good; 3.3.2 A Typology of Dispersal Strategies and Their Competitors; Increased Materials Throughput; Property Rights Investments; Accommodation with Predatory Groups; Dispersal Strategies; 3.3.3 The Balancing Act; Production as Nerve Center; The Role of Information; 3.4 Lessons and Leads; Acknowledgment; References; 4: Stateless State-Led Industrialization; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Methods for Examining Conflict Effects on Firms; 4.3 The Cloud; 4.4 SLI in Historical Context; 4.4.1 Infant Industry Protection 4.4.2 Dependency Theory4.4.3 Tacit Knowledge; 4.5 Resemblances to SLI in Liberia; 4.5.1 Import Tariffs; 4.5.2 Local Content; 4.5.3 Staff and Firm Localization; 4.5.4 Knowledge Accumulation; 4.5.5 SLI Mimicry in Summary; 4.6 Where the Comparison Breaks Down; 4.7 A Case for Postconflict Protectionism; Acknowledgment; References; 5: Trade Network Splintering and Ethnic Homogenization in Liberia and Sierra Leone; 5.1 Overview; 5.2 The Dispersal and Homogenization Hypotheses; 5.3 Predicting Trade as a Primary Occupation; 5.4 Predicting Distance from Ethnic Homeland; 5.5 Predicting Traders ́Income 5.6 Radial Trade, Ethnic Homogenization, and MonopolyReferences; Part III: Production Networks Acton Violent Actors; 6: Multipolar Trade and Rural-Urban Violence in Maoist India; 6.1 Trade or Invade; 6.2 Hypothesizing Violence at the Combat Frontier; 6.3 Background to the Naxal Conflict; 6.4 A Statistical Model of Naxal Violence; 6.4.1 Variables for Inclusion; 6.4.2 Building a Control Model; 6.5 Rural-Urban Strength and Network Reticulation as Violence Moderators; 6.6 Theorizing Mechanisms; 6.7 Implications for Development Policy; Acknowledgment; References.
Özet:
Why do some rebel insurgencies target cities as economic prey, whilst others are content to trade with them? This volume examines how the trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas differ in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier.
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