Preface / Daniel H. Olsen, Maximiliano A. Korstanje -- Negotiating dark tourism and pilgrimage -- The "dark" is still dark - The evolution of dark tourism to pilgrimage destinations / Müjde Bidec -- Interpreting the sacred in dark tourism / Nitasha Sharma -- The convergence of dark tourism and...

A fundamental issue for economists is what determines civil conflict. One unsettled question is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary preferences of...

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment of a market economy. Yet a fundamental and unresolved empirical question is whether the lack of political and civil freedoms is one of the root causes of greater insecurity....