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Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars

García Montalvo, José; Reynal-Querol, Marta - 2005

This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many authors have found empirical evidence that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth. One mechanism that can explain this nexus is the effect of ethnic...

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Ethnic identities, public spending and political regimes

Ghosh, Sugata; Mitra, Anirban - 2019

Do democracies discriminate less against minorities as compared to non-democracies? How does the dominance of an ethnic group affect discrimination under various political regimes? We build a theory which tries to answer such questions. In our model, political leaders (democratically elected or...

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Democratisation under diversity: theory and evidence from Indonesian communities

Mitra, Anirban; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021

We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination costs and thereby cooperative behaviour across the constituent ethnic groups. Our theory highlights...

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Internal v. external rent-seeking with in-group inequality and public good provision

Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021

We examine how inequality in the endowment of secure wealth, mediated through voluntary public communities, each internally differentiated into rich, intermediate and poor segments, contest one another for the division of some rent. Any rent accruing to a community is distributed internally...

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Political representation in the wake of ethnic violence and post-conflict institutional reform : comparing views from Rwandan and Burundian citizens

Ingelaere, Bert; Ndayiragije, Réginas; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2022

The lack of political representation often lies at the origin of identity-based violence, and, when not resolved, can …

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Inequality and Racial Backlash : Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen's Bureau

Chyn, Eric; Haggag, Kareem; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How do majority groups respond to a narrowing of inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this question by examining the effects of the Freedmen's Bureau, an agency created after the U.S. Civil War to provide aid to former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. We...

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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of...

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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024

We model a rent-seeking contest among two 'identity ideologues', differentially located along a uni …-dimensional identity continuum, and a 'mercenary', who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity …-relevant good ('religion') and an identity-irrelevant good ('money'). The mercenary values only money, the ideologues value both …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Bread and Bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis - 2016

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