@article {Daly:2014:0010-4159:333,
title = "The Dark Side of Power-Sharing: Middle Managers and Civil War Recurrence",
journal = "Comparative Politics",
parent_itemid = "infobike://cuny/cp",
publishercode ="cuny",
year = "2014",
volume = "46",
number = "3",
publication date ="2014-04-01T00:00:00",
pages = "333-353",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0010-4159",
eissn = "2151-6227",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/2014/00000046/00000003/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.5129/001041514810943027",
author = "Daly, Sarah Zukerman",
abstract = "This article seeks to explain sub-national, spatial, and temporal variation in the return to violence following civil war termination in Colombia. In 1958, La Violencia ended in negotiated settlement, but peace was short-lived with violence recurring within several years. However,
violence resumed in only 45% of the municipalities affected by prior conflict, while 55% consolidated peace. This article argues that power-sharing's success at solving elite commitment problems undermined the accords between the commanders and mid-tier officers. As a result, betrayed and
resentful officers faced incentives to rearm. Where these middle managers had built their units on local social infrastructures, they proved able to remobilize. Where the factions were non-local to their regions of operation, the organizations disintegrated, and peace was preserved.",
}