Maldistribution of land in agrarian societies is commonly thought to be an important precondition of mass political violence and revolution. Others argue that because of the difficulty of mobilizing rural populations for political protest, land maldistribution is irrelevant except as part of an inegalitarian distribution of income nationwide. These rival inequality hypotheses have significant implications with respect to the kinds of reforms likely to reduce the potential for insurgency in a society. They are tested using the most comprehensive cross-national compilation of data currently available on land inequality, landlessness, and income inequality. Support is found for the argument that attributes the greater causal import to income i...
This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of g...
Income varies considerably within countries and the locations where conflicts emerge are rarely typi...
2 Although income can vary considerably within countries and conflicts zones are rarely typical or r...
Prominent theories stress the role of economic grievances in promoting political instability and con...
Economic grievances, particularly those caused by landholding inequality, play a central role in the...
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on the impetus of an organized dissident group t...
This study examines the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run. First,...
This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distincti...
When and why ethnic groups rebel remains a central puzzle in the civil war literature. In this paper...
While unequal land ownership has a role to play in explaining historically high levels of income ine...
What is the relationship between landholding inequality and rural unrest? And why does land reform t...
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the population-land inequality-land clearance ne...
Recent literature has pointed out that the historical distribution of assets is crucial in explainin...
This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distincti...
When does inequality lead to conflict? Despite recent studies highlighting the effects of group excl...
This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of g...
Income varies considerably within countries and the locations where conflicts emerge are rarely typi...
2 Although income can vary considerably within countries and conflicts zones are rarely typical or r...
Prominent theories stress the role of economic grievances in promoting political instability and con...
Economic grievances, particularly those caused by landholding inequality, play a central role in the...
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on the impetus of an organized dissident group t...
This study examines the impact of agrarian structures on income inequality over the long run. First,...
This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distincti...
When and why ethnic groups rebel remains a central puzzle in the civil war literature. In this paper...
While unequal land ownership has a role to play in explaining historically high levels of income ine...
What is the relationship between landholding inequality and rural unrest? And why does land reform t...
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the population-land inequality-land clearance ne...
Recent literature has pointed out that the historical distribution of assets is crucial in explainin...
This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distincti...
When does inequality lead to conflict? Despite recent studies highlighting the effects of group excl...
This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of g...
Income varies considerably within countries and the locations where conflicts emerge are rarely typi...
2 Although income can vary considerably within countries and conflicts zones are rarely typical or r...