Infrastructure, Revenue, and Services: Non-State Governance in Iraq’s Disputed Territories
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Infrastructure Revenue and Services Non-State Governance in Iraq s Disputed Territories.pdf
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Author(s)
Cancian, Matthew
Greenwald, Diana B.
Date Issued
October 5, 2022
Journal
Civil Wars
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
Cancian, M., & Greenwald, D. B. (2022). Infrastructure, Revenue, and Services: Non-State Governance in Iraq’s Disputed Territories. Civil Wars, 24(4), 445–496.
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Final published version
Abstract
While states and non-state armed groups often engage in militarised conflict over contested territory, at other times they co-govern in a tenuous equilibrium. Using a survey of over 1,600 Kurdish soldiers (Peshmerga) and elite interviews, we investigate local variation in shared governance in one such context – the disputed territories of northern Iraq. Despite the area being under Kurdish military control, the Iraqi government continued to provide services in districts where it had pre-existing infrastructural capacity. However, in revenue-producing districts, Kurdish actors appropriated infrastructural power to provide services themselves. This illustrates that non-state governance strategies, and their outputs, can vary locally.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2022.2125718
