eprintid: 10174062 rev_number: 10 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/40/62 datestamp: 2023-07-26 15:26:58 lastmod: 2023-07-26 15:26:58 status_changed: 2023-07-26 15:26:58 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Schenoni, Luis L creators_name: Madrid, Raul title: Taming Rebellion in South America, 1830-1929 ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F30 keywords: Civil wars, coups, Latin America, 19th century, military professionalization note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: South America was plagued by internal conflict during the 19th century that destabilized the region’s economies and political systems. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, levels of political violence throughout the region declined dramatically. Existing scholarship has paid surprisingly little attention to this historic transformation in part because of the absence of comprehensive data on revolts. Drawing on the work of historians, we create a comprehensive dataset on revolts in ten South American countries from 1830 to 1929, and we develop an original typology of revolts based on the origins of the rebel leaders. We find that revolts from outside the state apparatus declined dramatically during this period, while revolts from inside the state, such as coups, did not. We hypothesize that increases in the size and professionalization of the military, which were driven by the export boom and the threat of international conflict, are fundamental to explain these regional patterns. We test the observational implications of our theory through historical narratives and a series of regression analyses on cross-national time-series data. date: 2023 date_type: published publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press) official_url: https://direct.mit.edu/isec oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2039953 lyricists_name: Schenoni, Luis lyricists_id: LLSCH26 actors_name: Schenoni, Luis actors_id: LLSCH26 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: International Security issn: 0162-2889 citation: Schenoni, Luis L; Madrid, Raul; (2023) Taming Rebellion in South America, 1830-1929. International Security (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174062/1/Madrid%20and%20Schenoni%202023.pdf