Can you home again?
Subtitle: desertion and control of hometowns in civil wars
By: Theodore McLauchlin, McGill University
Contributors: Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals; McGill University
Series: Working papers / Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals -- 2011/34; Working papers (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals) -- 2011/34.
Publisher: IBEI Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Military Desertion; Civil war; Desertions; Rearguard action (Military science); Sources; History
Notes: "Abstract: What allows an armed group in a civil war to prevent desertion? This paper addresses this question with a focus on control in the rearguard. ... Based on an original dataset of soldiers from Santander Province in the Spanish Civil War, gathered from archival sources, I find statistical evidence that the rougher thr terrain in a soldier's home municipallity, the more likely he is to desert ..."--Page 3.

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