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Löf, Anton; Löf, Olof; Ericsson, Magnus - 2021

The focus of this study is rent in the diamond industry. Based on extensive datasets and a discussion of all relevant … costs, we present resource rent statistics from the diamond industry in key producer countries in emerging economies such as … Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Sierra Leone, and South Africa, as well as the Russian …

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Civic legacies of wartime governance

Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...

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The political legacies of wartime resistance : how local communities in Italy keep anti-fascist sentiments alive

Cremaschi, Simone; Masullo, Juan - 2023

Can past wartime experiences other than violence have long-term effects on political attitudes and behaviours? How are these legacies sustained across generations and beyond those who directly experienced war? We explore these questions in Italy, a country whose democratic institutions were...

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Civil wars and stumbling of patriarchal societies : the reconstruction of gender relations in post-conflict Liberia

Larmin, Augustine T.; Banini, Daniel Kofi - 2022

This research project traces how women's participation in the Liberian civil wars, as combatants and peace agents, reconstructs gender relations in the post-civil war context. The current literature examines the role of women in the governance of rebel groups, emphasizing how women operate...

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The incursion of Leviathan: wartime territorial control and post-conflict state capacity in Peru

Kreiman, Guillermo - 2022

How do civil war dynamics affect state-building decisions in the aftermath of conflict? This paper argues that, in the post-conflict period, the state focuses its efforts to build state capacity on areas in which state power has been eroded during wartime, with the goal of avoiding future...

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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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Rebel governance and political participation

Steele, Abbey; Weintraub, Michael - 2022

Rebels, militias, and criminal groups all govern civilians. Governing strategies adopted by armed groups during civil war likely influence citizens' post-conflict political participation, with consequences for democratic politics. We theorize that an armed group's position relative to the state...

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Firm exit and armed conflict in Colombia

Camacho, Andriana; Rodríguez, Catherine - 2010

This paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia. Using a fixed effect estimation methodology at the plant level and controlling for the possible endogeneity of armed conflict through the use of instrumental...

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Population size, per capita income, and the risk of civil war : regional heterogeneity in the structural relationship matters

Brückner, Markus - 2011

A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income having a significant average effect on civil...

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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries

Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015

Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...

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