Pro-government miltias and repressive violence against the free press
| dc.contributor.advisor | Malejacq, R.A.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Frieling, Till | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-08-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Governments around the globe maintain relationships with Pro-Government militias (PGMs) This behaviour is often explained with the Delegation argument. The argument states that governments have a need to avoid accountability for human rights violations. Governments therefore delegate certain shameful acts, such as repressive violence against journalists, to PGMs in order to avoid accountability. One could therefore expect that official security forces wont participate in acts of repression, if governments delegate these acts to PGMs in order to avoid accountability. I test this assumption with a comparative case study based on two cases, Venezuela and Iraq. The comparative case study is based on news media articles and NGO reports retrieved via LexisNexis. The findings show that militia violence against journalists cannot fully be explained by the Delegation argument. Instead, I turn to the concept of violence repertoires as a complementary explanations Links between PGMs and governments as well as militia violence against journalists can therefore be seen as the result of path dependency and routine behaviour. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/8485 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Conflict, Power, and Politics | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Master Political Science | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | en_US |
| dc.title | Pro-government miltias and repressive violence against the free press | en_US |
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