@article{431625c07b00474a927b3591b42eb8eb,
title = "The problem of solidarity in insurgent collective action: The nore mutiny of 1797",
abstract = "How do insurgents engaged in high-risk collective actionmaintain solidarity when faced with increasing costs and dangers? Based on a combination of process tracing through qualitative evidence and an event-history analysis of a unique data set assembled from naval archives concerning a mass mutiny in the Royal Navy in 1797, this article explains why insurgent solidarity varied among the ships participating in the mutiny. Maintaining solidarity was the key problem that the organizers of themutiny faced in confronting government repression and inducements for ships{\textquoteright} companies to defect. Solidarity, proxied here as the duration of a ship{\textquoteright}s company{\textquoteright}s adherence to the mutiny, relied on techniques used by themutiny leadership that increased dependence and imposed control over rankand-file seamen. In particular,mutiny leaders monitored and sanctioned compliance and exploited informational asymmetries to persuade seamen to stand by the insurgency, even as prospects for its success faded.",
author = "Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter and Corcoran, {Katie E.}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the role of N. A.M. Rodger in furthering our research on mutiny. This research was supported by grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-09-1-0502) and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. The article benefitted from comments at workshops at the Center for Economic History at UCLA; the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, University of Oxford; Stanford University; the University of Washington; and Arizona State University. The authors thank Yoram Barzel, Doug Allen, Andrew Walder, Doug McAdam, Ross Matsueda, Karl-Dieter Opp, Edgar Kiser, Dan Kselman, William Roy, Markus Rediker, and Niklas Frykman for comments on previous versions of the article.We are especially grateful to Dr.Moira Bracknell for her archival expertise and the assistance of Dale Coleman, Christopher Prather, Kristin Smith, Thomas Stanton, Meral Tunador, and Rachel Tweet, all former students at the University of Washington. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Social Science History Association, 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1017/ssh.2016.3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "40",
pages = "247--270",
journal = "Social Science History",
issn = "0145-5532",
publisher = "Duke University Press",
number = "2",
}