Complexity is part and parcel of most political and social phenomena and it is the goal of social scientist to reduce this complexity. Newspaper reports, historical accounts, and economic work overflow with explanations for conflict: ancient hatreds incite violence; oil wealth breeds separatism; trade shocks trigger insurrections; income inequality leads to class warfare. Surveying the vast literature on the outbreak of civil war, one feels caught in a complex web of root and proximate causes. Models from both economic and political science have reduced varied accounts of civil war to a few common logics, each of which can be approximated in a parsimonious framework of self-interested, wealth- maximizing groups or individuals. The empirical...
Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential cata...
Civil war is highly concentrated in poor countries. Nearly all recent quantitative studies find a st...
When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: startin...
This paper draws on a comparative case study design to refine and expand formal-quantitative models ...
Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer...
Since World War II about 16 million people have been killed in ‘civil’ wars. What causes these civil...
Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed a...
Since the early 1990s, the large-N civil war research program has been a vibrant one but has reached...
Ten papers combine large-N quantitative empirical analysis with comparative case studies to develop ...
We investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theory, rebels...
The authors investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theor...
What accounts for overarching trajectories of civil wars? This article develops an account of civil ...
The near absence of inter-state conflicts and a parallel increase in the incidence of intra-state c...
Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide in civil war studies is imperative if we are to improve...
While economic agendas have been shown to be an important factor in shaping civil wars, there are se...
Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential cata...
Civil war is highly concentrated in poor countries. Nearly all recent quantitative studies find a st...
When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: startin...
This paper draws on a comparative case study design to refine and expand formal-quantitative models ...
Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer...
Since World War II about 16 million people have been killed in ‘civil’ wars. What causes these civil...
Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed a...
Since the early 1990s, the large-N civil war research program has been a vibrant one but has reached...
Ten papers combine large-N quantitative empirical analysis with comparative case studies to develop ...
We investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theory, rebels...
The authors investigate whether civil wars have economic causes. The model is based on utility theor...
What accounts for overarching trajectories of civil wars? This article develops an account of civil ...
The near absence of inter-state conflicts and a parallel increase in the incidence of intra-state c...
Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide in civil war studies is imperative if we are to improve...
While economic agendas have been shown to be an important factor in shaping civil wars, there are se...
Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential cata...
Civil war is highly concentrated in poor countries. Nearly all recent quantitative studies find a st...
When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: startin...