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Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison

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CEDERMAN, LARS-ERIK, WEIDMANN, NILS B., GLEDITSCH, KRISTIAN SKREDE·2011·American Political Science Review
DOI 10.1017/s0003055411000207
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Abstract

Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on questionable theoretical and empirical grounds. Whereas scholars have examined primarily the relationship between individual inequality and conflict, we argue that horizontal inequalities between politically relevant ethnic groups and states at large can promote ethnonationalist conflict. Extending the empirical scope to the entire world, this article introduces a new spatial method that combines our newly geocoded data on ethnic groups’ settlement areas with spatial wealth estimates. Based on these methodological advances, we find that, in highly unequal societies, both rich and poor groups fight more often than those groups whose wealth lies closer to the country average. Our results remain robust to a number of alternative sample definitions and specifications.

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  1. Turner, 1981, Intergroup Behaviour, 66
  2. Moore, 1966, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
  3. Ross, 2005, Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis, 35
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Authors
CEDERMAN, L.-E., WEIDMANN, N. B., & GLEDITSCH, K. S.
Affiliations
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • Yale University (US)
  • University of Essex (GB)
Corresponding author
  • CEDERMAN, LARS-ERIK
  • WEIDMANN, NILS B.
  • GLEDITSCH, KRISTIAN SKREDE
ORCID
Venue
American Political Science Review
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2011-07-11
Volume
105
Issue
3
Pages
478-495
ISSN
  • 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5943
DOI
10.1017/s0003055411000207
OpenAlex
W2122757622
Cited by
1,028
References
99
Citations by year
2026: 31 · 2025: 117 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 126 · 2019: 93 · 2018: 62 · 2017: 67 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 67 · 2014: 80 · 2013: 58 · 2012: 20
FWCI
185.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
  • American Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
  • Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (acceptedVersion)
  • reroDoc Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • ETH Zürich Research Collection
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (180441, 105511)
  • European Science Foundation
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (105511, 116795)
  • Norges Forskningsråd
  • Economic and Social Research Council (RES-062-23-, ES/E007147/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Keywords
horizontal inequality, ethnic conflict, ethnic groups, geocoded data, political grievances, economic grievances

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