2019-01-05

Recruitment Processes in Clandestine Political Organizations

My data reveal some qualitative characteristics of these ties. They show, for example, that they were both multiple and strong. Decisions to join underground organizations were taken by clusers or cliques of people connected to each other by joint involvements of more than one activity. For example, quite frequently new recruits were next-door neighbors who worked in the same department of a big factory; school friends who used to spend their vacation together; cousins who belonged to the same voluntary association.


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