A study of how selection into insurgency works, and how domestic institutions associated with public goods provision makes insurgency less likely, using the Israeli-Palestinian model as an example.

Regular print reproduction. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Politics, New York University, 2012.

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