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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations
de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009
Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273791
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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260692
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...
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Promoting peace and democracy through party regulation? : ethnic party bans in Africa
Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003742335
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Promoting peace and democracy through party regulation? : ethnic party bans in Africa
Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - 2008
implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907559
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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 … ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best foundation for the explanation of party formation and voting behaviour in … Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907570
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908657
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Ethnic party bans in East Africa from a comparative perspective
Moroff, Anika - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003954383
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Nationalized incumbents and regional challengers : opposition- and incumbent-party nationalization in Africa
Wahman, Michael - 2015
ethnic fractionalization is high. The analysis utilizes a new data set of disaggregate election results for 26 African … that factors like ethnic fractionalization, the size of the geographical area, and urbanization affect party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501902
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Does uranium mining increase civil conflict risk? : evidence from a spatiotemporal analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010
Koos, Carlo; Basedau, Matthias - 2012
We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa …. The macrolevel analysis suggests that - compared to the baseline conflict risk - uranium ventures increase the risk of … intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic exclusion to be a much better predictor of armed conflict than uranium …
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