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Democratizing with ethnic divisions: a source of conflict?

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorMousseau, Demet Yalçın
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T22:53:04Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the conditions that are conducive to extreme political violence in ethnically heterogeneous nations. Theories of resource mobilization, ethnic competition, and split labor market propose that democratization and economic modernization encourage ethnic competition, increasing the likelihood of extreme political violence within nations experiencing political and economic change. In the light of these theories, the conditions that possibly foster conflict in multi-ethnic nations are identified with respect to levels of democracy, political change (or democratization), and levels of economic development. The effects of these variables on extreme political violence are examined with several logit regression analyses on a pooled time-series sample of 126 nations from 1948 to 1982. The findings show that ethnic heterogeneity is not associated with higher levels of violence within nations, except under certain political conditions. Both democracy and economic development relate to political violence in a curvilinear inverted U-shape form. For ethnically heterogeneous societies, however, the inverted U-curve for democracy is asymmetric, with democracy's pacifying impact relative to semi-democracies only about half as potent as in ethnically homogeneous societies and less than that of strict autocracy.
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue5
dc.description.openaccessYES
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022343301038005001
dc.identifier.issn0022-3433
dc.identifier.quartileQ1
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0035622514
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0022343301038005001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/7134
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Peace Research
dc.subjectInternational relations
dc.titleDemocratizing with ethnic divisions: a source of conflict?
dc.typeJournal Article
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