fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results …In this paper we examine the link between ethnic and religious polariza- tion and conflict using interpersonal …- ization index. We measure conflict by means on an index of social unrest, as well as by the standard conflict onset or …

This paper investigates the relationship between linguistic polarization and conflict in the Basque Country. During the … underlying the conflict in the Basque Country. We show that at the municipality level, linguistic polarization reduces the level … of conflict. This finding is robust to various ways of measuring linguistic and ideological polarization and the …

true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict …We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to … “mendaciously” pass for a member of another) to revisit the correlation between natural resources and the onset of conflict. The …

able to better identify the effect of ethnolinguistic polarization on the civil conflict in the country. We find that, for … each of our polarization indices, there is a positive effect on the conflict. The historical underpinnings of our indices …Polarization measures, that are used in examining the empirical relationship between ethnic divisions and violent …

Theoretically, polarization is associated with a higher probability of social conflict. This paper, in a microeconomic … parameters associated with the concept of polarization. This study shows that under upward monotonic preferences, longer sets of … affiliations for each individual reduce polarization, whereas under downward monotonic preferences, longer sets of the so …

In this paper, it will be shown that polarization not only depends on identification and alienation. There exist … compute it. Consistent with this idea and with the basic principles of polarization of Esteban and Ray (1994), we define a … measure of polarization as the product of three factors: the alienation-identification, the share of power of the groups and …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, we develop the measurement theory of polarization for the case in which … polarization indices that can be used to compare polarization across time or entities. Distribution-free statistical inference … results are also derived in order to ensure that the orderings of polarization across entities are not simply due to sampling …

polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to …. However, polarization does not necessarily lead to violence. We explore the case of Catalonia, a region that experienced a …