Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars
The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration. In these models, uncertainty is directly related to the relative size of the contenders. The authors argue that the duration of civil wars increases the more polarized a society is. Uncertainty is not necessarily linked to the structure of the population but it could be traced back to the measurement of the size of the different groups in the society. Given a specific level of measurement error or uncertainty, more polarization implies lengthier wars. The empirical results show that ethnically polarized countries have to endure longer civil wars than ethnically less polarized societies.
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dig-okr-1098670092024-08-08T17:00:02Z Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars Montalvo, Jose G. Reynal-Querol, Marta ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration. In these models, uncertainty is directly related to the relative size of the contenders. The authors argue that the duration of civil wars increases the more polarized a society is. Uncertainty is not necessarily linked to the structure of the population but it could be traced back to the measurement of the size of the different groups in the society. Given a specific level of measurement error or uncertainty, more polarization implies lengthier wars. The empirical results show that ethnically polarized countries have to endure longer civil wars than ethnically less polarized societies. 2012-06-04T17:43:31Z 2012-06-04T17:43:31Z 2007-04 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/7523819/ethnic-polarization-duration-civil-wars https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7009 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 4192 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
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ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME |
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ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME Montalvo, Jose G. Reynal-Querol, Marta Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
description |
The authors analyze the relationship
between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars.
Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about
the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to
increase its duration. In these models, uncertainty is
directly related to the relative size of the contenders. The
authors argue that the duration of civil wars increases the
more polarized a society is. Uncertainty is not necessarily
linked to the structure of the population but it could be
traced back to the measurement of the size of the different
groups in the society. Given a specific level of measurement
error or uncertainty, more polarization implies lengthier
wars. The empirical results show that ethnically polarized
countries have to endure longer civil wars than ethnically
less polarized societies. |
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ARMED CONFLICT ARMED CONFLICTS ARMY CIVIL WAR CIVIL WARS CONFLICTS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIASPORA DISPUTES DURATION OF CONFLICT DURATION OF WARS ECONOMIC GROWTH ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISIONS ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITY ETHNIC POLARIZATION GENOCIDE HAZARD FUNCTION HUMAN LIFE INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INTENSITY OF CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF ETHNIC GROUPS OPPORTUNITY COST PEACE PEACE RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL SYSTEMS POPULATION INCREASE POST-CONFLICT PROBABILITY OF WAR PROGRESS REBEL GROUP REBEL VICTORY REBELLION RELIGIOUS CONFLICT RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RISK FACTOR RISK OF CONFLICT RULE OF LAW SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL POLARIZATION STATE CONFLICTS VIOLENCE WAR DURATION WAR LITERATURE WARFARE WARTIME |
author |
Montalvo, Jose G. Reynal-Querol, Marta |
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Montalvo, Jose G. Reynal-Querol, Marta |
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Montalvo, Jose G. |
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Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
title_short |
Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
title_full |
Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
title_fullStr |
Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
title_full_unstemmed |
Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars |
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ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2007-04 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/04/7523819/ethnic-polarization-duration-civil-wars https://hdl.handle.net/10986/7009 |
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