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Der Country Report beschäftigt sich mit der Ausweitung agrarindustrieller Projekte und industrieller Minen im Senegal und damit in Verbindung stehender Konflikte. Die Studie arbeitet die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede von Konflikten im senegalesischen Bergbau- und Agrarsektor heraus. Der...
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Le Country Report se consacre à l'expansion des projets agro-industriels et des mines industrielles au Sénégal ainsi qu'aux conflits liés. L'étude identifie des similarités et différences entre les conflits dans le secteur minier et agricole au Sénégal. D'abord, le rapport donne un...
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The aim of this article is designed to provide an overview of the historical and contemporary relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as to examine the recent geopolitical situation and the perception of local people in Ethiopia. This paper is mainly based on secondary data analysis of...
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positiv beeinflussen, während gesellschaftliche Unzufriedenheit die populistische Parteiwahl, nicht aber Protest vorhersagt …
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We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...
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Social conflict pervades human society and fulfils a number of essential functions in its development and transformation, including the creation of new norms and institutions. The Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) is an ongoing project designed to provide to scholars and society at...
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In this paper, we study the impact of exogenous variations of international oil prices on the incidence of protest …
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We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure of oil rents...
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In this study, we look at how oil price shocks affect the incidence of protests in a country and how the size of a country's shadow economy influences this relationship. Using panel data from 144 countries, from the period of 1991–2015, we find evidence that negative oil price shocks...
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We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. Instrumenting rally attendance with rainfall while factoring in that some municipalities never...
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