

<p>Prevailing views suggest rebels govern to 
enhance their organizational capacity, but this book demonstrates that 
some rebels undertake costly governance projects that can imperil their 
cadres during war. The origins for this choice began with the Chinese 
Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese Civil War. The CCP knowingly 
introduced challenging governance projects, but nevertheless propagated 
its strategy globally, creating a behavioural model readily available to
 later rebels. The likelihood of whether later rebels' will imitate this
 model is determined by the compatibility between their goals and the 
CCP's objectives; only rebels that share the CCP's revolutionary goals 
decide to mimic the CCP's governance fully. Over time, ideational and 
material pressures further encouraged (and occasionally rewarded) 
revolutionary rebels' conformity to the CCP's template. Using archival 
data from six countries, primary rebel sources, fieldwork and 
quantitative analysis, Governing for Revolution underscores the mimicry 
of and ultimate convergence in revolutionary rebels' governance, that 
persists even today, despite vast differences in ideology.</p>



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