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Association: Name: The Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Butler, Christopher. "Social Networks and Rebellion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 07, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p86748_index.html>

Butler, C. , 2005-04-07 "Social Networks and Rebellion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p86748_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Country-orientated studies of civil war are problematic for several reasons. They lump geographically disparate conflicts; they can fail to recognize changes in major actors; they can fail to pick up the end of one conflict and the beginning of a new one with different rebel groups. In short, they aggregate too much information into the broad unit of analysis that is the countryyear. To overcome these drawbacks, we examine civil conflict as a system of relationships within society over time. The government-rebel relationship is but one of the relationships that exist from this perspective. The rebel group itself emerges from among the set of relationships in society, first as dissenters and only later as rebels. We seek to determine what patterns of social relationships (or networks) lead to civil war onset, produce long or short civil wars, and how social networks change over time to facilitate civil war termination. This paper presents our initial theorizing on this subject and a case study of the evolution of the rebel sides in the Nicaraguan civil wars that both illustrate and illuminate the value of using social network analysis to understand the onset, duration, and termination of civil wars.

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