Jia, Ruixue; Bai, Ying; Yang, Jiaojiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war …? We argue that these two questions are interconnected, as elites mobilize war often because war benefits them. We … scholargeneral that suppressed the deadliest civil war in history, the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). We construct comprehensive …