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A Self-defense Network against Terrorism and Crime: Evidence from Peru.
- Source :
- Terrorism & Political Violence; May/Jun2023, Vol. 35 Issue 4, p828-845, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- According to prevailing evidence, self-enforcing agreements do not scale up. In self-governing societies, small groups are able to provide order and security when the group is small; but when groups are larger, collective action seems to be more efficient if undertaken by state-like institutions. However, an effective provision of national security may result from a bottom-up development of rules and institutions. This paper covers a case in which thousands of peasants built multicommunity partnerships that scaled up to produce public goods with no central direction. The organizational patterns of these peasant partnerships resulted in a vast rural movement that played a decisive role in defeating crime and terrorism in Peru between 1980 and 2000. The intergroup interactions reflected a polycentric order that served to discover the boundaries of the new jurisdictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TERRORISM
CRIME
SELF-defense
PEASANTS
COLLECTIVE action
NATIONAL security
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09546553
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Terrorism & Political Violence
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163488649
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1982704