This chapter reviews research on group conflict from three perspectives. First, a development perspective of group … conflict understands conflict as a natural part of group history. This view emphasizes progress through conflict as a … precondition for group growth and productivity. Second, an instrumental perspective of group conflict differentiates between …

dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …

production and conflict model. Six economics examples illustrate the unrealistic implications of rent seeking analysis. …

inevitably leads to a certain outcome. Instead, the scope of this theory is to select few powerful social mechanisms that …