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History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe), while there are also cases of dictators who have displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We show that such mutations can result from rational...
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This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that may shape such effect. Our identification strategy is based on the construction of contiguous-pairs of rural...
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Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt to determine the relationship between conflict and social...
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We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for … on the effect of civil war, we find that villagelevel violence, measured as the number of battle-related deaths or …
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Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war-related factors over political ones. For … that levels of prewar electoral competition explain variation in levels of direct violence from both the left and the right … whereby subsequent levels of violence are highly correlated with initial levels of violence. I argue that the mechanism behind …
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conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …
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election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning. We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents. We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …
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stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the …
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quantitatively large and robust to a number of control variables, alternative measures of violence, and different statistical … ethnic violence depend on the ethnic fractionalization. Fighting has a negative effect on the economic situation in highly …
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