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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

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On the Political Economy of Resource Rents in Polarized Societies

Bjorvatn, Kjetil - 2010

The present paper analyses how resource rents may affect political outcomes in a polarized society, where groups hold conflicting views on economic policy. A politically dominant group decides whether or not to include the opposition in the national political process. The weaker group chooses...

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Oil and democracy

Cesari, Anna - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 122 (2014) 3, pp. 265-274

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Foreign agents? : natural resources & the political economy of civil society

Breyel, Corinna; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016

of a negative oil price shock, regime change becomes likely, whereas a positive oil shock increases the extractive … capacity of the dictator. When a negative oil price shock occurs, the persecution of failed revolutionaries can prevent …

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads : determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and 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...

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Do Economic and Political Institutions Mitigate the Risk of Natural Resource Conflicts?

O'Reilly, Colin - 2015

identification strategy to test these models. However, Lei and Michaels (2014) find that exogenous discoveries of “giant” oil fields … of the oil discovery. Results indicate that for conflicts over control of territory, strong economic and political … institutions reduce the likelihood of conflict in the wake of the discovery of oil. This empirical finding is consistent with basic …

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Natural-resource rents and internal conflicts : can decentralization lift the curse? ; conference paper

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Lessmann, Christian; … - 2013 - This version: February 2013

We study how natural-resource rents affect the risk of internal conflict within countries and how the federal structure of countries influences this relationship. Natural-resource abundance may induce excessive rent-seeking and thus increase the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political...

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Nuclear Power, Democracy, Development, and Nuclear Warheads : Determinants for Introducing Nuclear Power

Sorge, Lars - 2019

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