<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Persistence of civil wars"^^ . "A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious factions only by creating a relatively strong army. In weakly-institutionalized polities this opens the way for excessive influence or coups by the military. Civilian governments whose rents are largely unaffected by civil wars then choose small and weak armies that are incapable of ending insurrections. Our framework also shows that when civilian governments need to take more decisive action against rebels, they may be forced to build over-sized armies, beyond the size necessary for fighting the insurrection, as a commitment to not reforming the military in the future."^^ . "2010-05" . . "8" . "2-3" . . "MIT Press"^^ . . . "Journal of the European Economic Association"^^ . . . "15424766" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Davide"^^ . "Ticchi"^^ . "Davide Ticchi"^^ . . "Andrea"^^ . "Vindigni"^^ . "Andrea Vindigni"^^ . . "Daron"^^ . "Acemoglu"^^ . "Daron Acemoglu"^^ . . . . . . "Persistence of civil wars (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Ticchi_2010a.pdf"^^ . . . "Persistence of civil wars (Image (JPEG))"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Persistence of civil wars (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #769 \n\nPersistence of civil wars\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "HB Economic Theory"@en . . . "HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform"@en . . . "JF Political institutions (General)"@en . .