fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal …- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of social unrest, as well as by the standard conflict onset or …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade … ethnic violence depend on the ethnic fractionalization. Fighting has a negative effect on the economic situation in highly …

, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (consociationalists) or denying (integrationists) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact … does the whole menu (not just single institutions) have? and c) How are effects conditioned by the exact nature of conflict …

underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors—conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …

democratization, international openness, and conflict. It also reviews studies of political integration and disintegration that focus … discusses recent empirical studies that shed light on the relations among heterogeneity, conflict, and borders. This line of …