From Terrorism to Politics

Engeland, Anisseh Van; Rudolph, Rachael M.

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“…First, holding seats after elections is a reliable way of capturing both party status and political integration (LeBas, 2011: 26). Second, scholars of political parties (Panebianco, 1988) and rebel-toparty transition (Shugart, 1992;So ¨derberg Kovacs & Hatz, 2016;Van Engeland & Rudolph, 2008) argue that operating in the electoral environment is what distinguishes parties from other political organizations. Third, the distinction between transition and transformation lays the groundwork for examining groups that have rebuilt themselves as (peaceful) political organizations, but have not transitioned into electoral politics.…”

Section: Advantages and Limitations For Rebel-to-party Researchmentioning

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Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition

Zaks

2023

Journal of Peace Research

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In addition to providing crucial insights, the rebel-to-party literature exhibits an unacknowledged conceptual tension: despite remarkable agreement on what ‘rebel-to-party transition’ should capture, there are nearly as many definitions and measures as there are studies of it. I demonstrate that conceptual imprecision has an analytic ripple effect—compromising the validity of the concept, the quality of the measure, the validity of inclusion criteria, and the results of analyses. Across four existing rebel-to-party variables, scholars only agree with regard to eight transitions (out of 161) and five failures (out of hundreds). To address these limitations, I propose a novel conceptualization and measure of rebel-to-party transition—distinguishing between failures, nominal participants (the conventional benchmark for transition), and seated participants. I demonstrate that some definitions of ‘failure’ induce selection effects into samples, and that minimalist indicators of ‘transition’ introduce problematic heterogeneity into ‘successes’. My analyses reveal that nominal participants are statistically indistinguishable from failures on key traits predicting transition and, moreover, seated participants consistently drive results. As such, the new conceptual framework advances the literature on conceptual and empirical grounds.

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Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition

Zaks

2023

Journal of Peace Research

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“…This article contributes to the existing debate both by taking ideology seriously and by problematizing the 'inclusion-moderation' hypothesis (Schwedler 2007). First, ideology is assumed to be crucial to the understanding of most armed groups' political grievances, claims and programmes (Van Engeland and Rudolph 2008). Ideology, as 'a verbal image of the good society and of the chief means of constructing it' (Downs 1967), is a key tool for an organization to both rationalize its existence, attract support and organize its actions (Curtis and Sindre 2018;Knight 2006;Sanín and Wood 2014;Sartori 1969).…”

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Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

Berti¹

2018

Gov. & oppos.

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The question of how involvement in institutional politics and governance affects rebel groups’ behaviour is pertinent when studying violent non-state actors, both during and in the aftermath of conflict. This is especially the case when participation in the political system becomes sustained over time. The interactions between the political and governance practices of a rebel group and its overall ideological orientation and state-building aspirations are not sufficiently analysed in the literature, especially in the context of hybrid armed-political organizations operating in latent, frozen or protracted conflicts. This article aims to begin to fill this gap by examining how involvement in institutional politics has shaped both Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s branding, interpretation and reliance on their own constitutive ideological manifestos, with an emphasis on both organizations’ dynamic processes aimed at reconciling political participation with their previous ideological rejection of the legitimacy of the political system and their constitutive calls to dramatically restructure the political order. Based on these detailed accounts, this article reflects on how the complex relationship between politics, electoral competition, governance and ideological principles can shape an armed group’s political identity.

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The Potential for Transnational Nationalisms in the European Party System

Gómez-Reino

2017

Nationalisms in the European Arena

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From Terrorism to Politics

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Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition

Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition

Rebel Groups between Adaptation and Ideological Continuity: The Impact of Sustained Political Participation

The Potential for Transnational Nationalisms in the European Party System

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