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High minority power facilitates democratization across ethnic fault lines
Glowacki, Luke; Morath, Florian; Rusch, Hannes - 2023
The historical record knows only few instances of democracies waging war against each other. Therefore, democratization …-Afghanistan being a recent example. Democratization appears particularly challenging where grievances between ethnic groups can spill … democratization vis-à-vis preexisting ethnic conflict has relied on correlational evidence and historical case studies, making it hard …
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Moving beyond "ethnic" conflict in Fiji : from colonization to the coup of 2006
Prasad, Ajnesh - In: International journal of social economics 35 (2008) 12, pp. 951-962
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Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Journal of economic growth 18 (2013) 3, pp. 217-252
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Tectonic boundaries and strongholds : the religious geography of violence in Northern Ireland
Mueller, Hannes; Rohner, Dominic; Schoenholzer, David - 2013
The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The model predicts that tectonic boundaries between...
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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
Since the sweeping (re)introduction of multiparty systems in the early 1990s almost all sub-Saharan countries have introduced bans on ethnic or - in more general terms - particularistic parties. Such party bans have been neglected in research, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of...
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Oil revenues, ethnic fragmentation and political transition of authoritarian regimes
Cologni, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2012
considered. Under certain circumstances, a process of full democratization is argued not to represent an optimal choice for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535530
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Mixed records, complexity, and ethnic voting in African elections
Ferree, Karen E.; Gibson, Clark C.; Long, James D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 141 (2021), pp. 1-10
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Elections, ethnic parties, and ethnic identification in new democracies : evidence from the Baltic states
Higashijima, Masaaki; Nakai, Ryo - In: Studies in comparative international development 51 (2016) 2, pp. 124-146
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Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities
Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021
We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination costs and thereby cooperative behaviour across the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights...
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