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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now …-building efforts in Algeria and identify ways of improving these measures. The resources, which are mainly controlled by the central …-building will only lead to sustainable results when embedded in full-fledged reforms of Algeria's entire economic and political …

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Conflict prevention through natural resource management? : a comparative study

Kuhn, Annegret - 2011

medium-N sample of oildependent countries and three in-depth case studies (Algeria, Nigeria, and Venezuela), we evaluate … schließen. Anhand von 31 Erdölexporteuren und von drei Fallstudien (Algerien, Nigeria und Venezuela) wird untersucht, welche …

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Machtquelle Erdöl : die Außen-, Innen- und Wirtschaftspolitik von Erdölstaaten

Basedau, Matthias (ed.); Kappel, Robert (ed.) - 2011 - 1. Auflage

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Revisiting the resource-conflict link : a systematic comparative test of causal mechanisms in four major oil-exporting countries

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

major oil exporters (Algeria, Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela) with differing levels of internal violence. To capture the …

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The international dimensions of authoritarian legitimation : the impact of regime evolution

Hoffmann, Bert - 2011

revolution. In particular, it analyzes how the regime's transition from a charismatic to a bureaucratic model of state socialism … downsized its once expansive international dimensions. -- Relations ; legitimation ; authoritarian regime ; Cuba ; socialism …

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When do religious minorities' grievances lead to peaceful or violent protest? : Evidence from Canada’s Jewish and Muslim communities

Huber, Christopher; Basedau, Matthias - GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - 2018

Previous research has shown that minority grievances can contribute significantly to violent conflict. However, it appears that grievances do not inevitably induce religious and other minorities to engage in protest or rebellion. Moreover, relative deprivation may explain conflict but not...

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Ethnic coalitions of convenience and commitment : political parties and party systems in Kenya

Elischer, Sebastian - 2008

This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya's political parties and its party system since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald Horowitz and distinguishes between three party types: the...

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The cleavage model, ethnicity and voter alignment in Africa : conceptual and methodological problems revisited

Erdmann, Gero - 2007

Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major factor that explains voter alignment in Africa. The paper maintains that the cleavage model, although modified to include ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best...

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Ethnicity and party systems in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - 2009

Despite earlier assumptions that ethnicity is a central feature of African party systems, there is little substantial evidence for this claim. The few studies with an empirical foundation rarely rely on individual data and are biased in favor of Anglophone Africa. This paper looks at four...

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Ethnic party bans in East Africa from a comparative perspective

Moroff, Anika - 2010

Since 1990 the banning of ethnic and other identity-based parties has become the norm in sub-Saharan Africa. This article focuses on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda as three East African countries that have opted for different ways of dealing with such parties. Using case studies, it traces the...

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