The Dark Underbelly of Hearts and Minds

• In Event: Models of Civil Conflict

Brief Overview

Strategic indoctrination increases anti-regime activity, not necessarily insurgent effectiveness. Governments may underinvest in education to balance benefit from higher-skilled population with risk educated citizens will defect and fight the regime.

Authors

• Todd Lehmann, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Jessica Sun, University of Michigan

• Scott Allen Tyson, University of Rochester