Riots, Coups and Civil War : Revisiting the Greed and Grievance Debate
The most influential recent work on the determinants of civil wars found the factors associated with the grievance motivation to be largely irrelevant. Our paper subjects the results of this empirical work to further scrutiny by embedding the stud...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/11/8691295/riots-coups-civil-war-revisiting-greed-grievance-debate http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7519 |
| Summary: | The most influential recent work on the
determinants of civil wars found the factors associated with
the grievance motivation to be largely irrelevant. Our
paper subjects the results of this empirical work to further
scrutiny by embedding the study of civil war in a more
general analysis of varieties of violent contestation of
political power within the borders of the state. Such an
approach, we argue, will have important implications for how
we think theoretically about the occurrence of domestic war
as well as how we specify our empirical tests. In the
empirical model, the manifestation of domestic conflict
range from low intensity violence and coups to civil war.
Our multinomial specification of domestic conflict supports
the hypothesis that diversity accentuates distributional
conflict and thus increases the risk of civil war. We also
find that democracies may be more efficient than autocracies
in reducing the risk of civil war. |
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