the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national … contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development …

the patterns of persistence and change in conflict around the world through the lens of historical political economy. I …-linguistic fractionalization and polarization. I highlight two aspects which I believe are crucial for understanding these impacts but remain …Despite great falls in global poverty, civil and ethnic conflict remains tragically common. In this chapter, I examine …

divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a variety of variables such as excluded population, power-sharing, anocracy … very important factor in starting both the civil and ethnic conflict in Syria, but it shows that the lack of power … with the state, paving the way to causing the conflict. Economic factors also provide an explanation of the onset of …

divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a variety of variables such as excluded population, power-sharing, anocracy … very important factor in starting both the civil and ethnic conflict in Syria, but it shows that the lack of power … with the state, paving the way to causing the conflict. Economic factors also provide an explanation of the onset of …

This paper is an attempt to clarify the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization and conflict. In … very weak. We argue that the index of ethnic fractionalization is not an appropriate measure of potential ethnic conflict … recent years many authors have argued that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth because it increases the …