nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual data … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …

dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …

commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … analytic approaches, (b) how developing ideas about conflict, predation and governance have entered into and greatly influenced …

decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; vertical interactions ; partial decentralization ; elections …