THE IRISH REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (1916-1922): A CASE STUDY IN ELITE CONFLICT.
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Title
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THE IRISH REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP (1916-1922): A CASE STUDY IN ELITE CONFLICT.
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Identifier
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AAI8302533
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identifier
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8302533
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Creator
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MILLER, MARTIN STEPHEN.
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Contributor
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Dankwart Rustow | Thomas Karis
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Date
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1982
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Political Science, General
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Abstract
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Twentieth-century anticolonial revolutionary leaders have often surprised both their enemies and supporters by the way in which they violently turn on each other after the struggle with the colonist has ended. Civil war is indeed a tragic way to begin building a nation. A number of hypotheses have been offered to explain such bloody intra-elite conflict in the cases of Algeria, Angola, India, Zimbabwe, and a host of others. This study presents an explanation for such violent conflict using a sociocultural background approach. Correlations are established between individual background attributes and future behavior.;The focus is upon Ireland during the 1916-22 period of insurrection against the British Crown that ended with partial British withdrawal and civil war among the Irish Republic Army "victors." The studies goals are to: (a) conceptually tie Ireland to the developing countries that have experienced colonization, exploitation, national revolutionary war, and ultimate independence; (b) test a wide variety of background variables (age, education, occupation, etc.) that have been commonly employed in case studies of elite conflict to determine whether they are correlated to either the moderate (Free State compromisers who accepted a tie to the Crown and partition) or intransigent (fight on for the independent republic!) positions that were most prominent in 1922; and (c) challenge or bolster the results of other intra-elite studies that deal with precisely the same leadership circumstances.;The results of this study demonstrate that there was indeed a clear correlation between certain types of background factors and behavior in the sample under study. Such variables as friendship circles, institutional membership, and revolutionary task were strongly correlated with moderation or intransigence. In other words, if one wants a better understanding of the momentous political conflict that still troubles Ireland, these background factors should be taken into account.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Political Science
