Conscription and Civil Conflict: Professional Soldiers, Draftees, and Insurgents

• In Event: Markets and Conflict

Brief Overview

Using a formal model, we argue that because conscription alters the outside option of citizens deciding which party to support during civil conflict, it has thus far unrecognized implications for intrastate conflict.

Authors

• Henry Pascoe, IE University

• Nikitas Konstantinidis, IE University