The documented link between natural resources and civil conflict is not well understood. This paper uses a political … economy framework to explore the prevalence of resource-based civil conflict driven by group-level discontent. The theoretical … conservation effects of civil unrest are analyzed and government corruption emerges as an important determinant of conflict. The …

This paper corrects and extends the analysis in “Social Identity, Inequality, and Conflict” by James Robinson … (Economics of Governance, 2(1), 2001). For conflict along class lines, Robinson finds the total impact of mobility on conflict to … be ambiguous. Contrary to his result, I show that, under his assumptions, the effect of social mobility on class conflict …

I extend the standard materialistic rational choice model of conflict to consider groups. In particular, I consider how … the aggregate amount of conflict in society depends on which groups form and oppose each other. The study is motivated by … empirical findings about the relationship between inequality, conflict and economic development. I focus on a salient comparison …