Warcraft: The legitimacy building of usurpers
Warcraft: The legitimacy building of usurpers
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魔兽争霸:篡夺者的合法性建设
DOI:
10.1016/j.jebo.2021.01.029
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Xinyu Fan
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作者:
Shuo Chen;Xinyu Fan
Rulers ascending to the throne differ substantially in their need for legitimization. This paper asks: will a usurper who took power by unlawful means build legitimacy through war? Using warfare data from historical China (750 BCE-1911), we show that usurpers initiated 40.2% more wars than did hereditary rulers against nomadic neighbors. Usurpers waged and won more wars early in their reign and converged to rulers’ average warring frequencies later. To address the endogeneity concern, we use rulers’ birth orders as an instrument for usurper identity. We show that usurpers also outperformed hereditary rulers in other peaceful legitimization strategies such as amnesties and political marriages, which, together with war increased usurpers’ survival odds. However, usurpers were not as proactive in abolishing the vassals, from which many originated.
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发表时间:
2021
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作者:
井上 匠;山崎 愛恵;細田 直;星野 真一
通讯作者:
星野 真一