I examine empirically the role of historical political centralization on the likelihood of modern civil conflict in Sub … within-country long history of statehood is linked to people's positive attitudes toward local state institutions and …

In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross … the importance of high population density, inter-state warfare and trade as factors leading to political centralization …. We find that while in the whole world sample these factors are indeed positively correlated with political centralization …