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institutions that emerged to bolster religious tolerance in these towns during the medieval period and that continued to support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010563
liberal democratic institutions where they do not already exist. I then consider the “public choice problem, which focuses on … the decisionmaking process within the United States. Oftentimes, the incentives created by political institutions generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010580
institutions that emerged to bolster religious tolerance in these towns during the medieval period and that continued to support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749197
liberal democratic institutions where they do not already exist. I then consider the “public choice problem, which focuses on … the decisionmaking process within the United States. Oftentimes, the incentives created by political institutions generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749216
Focused around the greed and/or grievance theses, a large part of the economics of conflict literature concerns itself with civil war. This article provides socioeconomic perspectives on contemporary conflict in Indonesia. Three categories of violent conflict in the country are separatist...
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Two phenomena have been recently utilized to explain conflict onset: greed and grievance. The former reflects elite competition over valuable natural resource rents. The latter argues that grievance fuels conflict. Central to grievance are concepts of interethnic or horizontal inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941328
This article examines envy as an important cultural link between inequality, institutions, development, and conflict …
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Focused around the greed and/or grievance theses, a large part of the economics of conflict literature concerns itself with civil war. This article provides socioeconomic perspectives on contemporary conflict in Indonesia. Three categories of violent conflict in the country are separatist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749196
Two phenomena have been recently utilized to explain conflict onset: greed and grievance. The former reflects elite competition over valuable natural resource rents. The latter argues that grievance fuels conflict. Central to grievance are concepts of interethnic or horizontal inequality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700226
This article explores the relative importance of pre-colonial institutional capacity and the effects of periods of peace and stability on long-term development outcomes in Nigeria. We use data on education, health, and public works at a provincial level from a variety of colonial and Nigerian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228223