Description: Riots, Coups and Civil War : Revisiting the Greed and Grievance Debate

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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Main Authors:	Bodea, Cristina, Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ARMED CONFLICT ARMED FORCES ARMY BANKS BOUNDARIES CITIZENS CIVIL CONFLICT CIVIL PEACE CIVIL WAR CIVIL WAR DATA CIVIL WAR VARIABLE CIVIL WARS COLD WAR CONFLICT CONFLICT MANAGEMENT CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONFLICTS COSTS OF REBELLION COUPS D'ETAT CYCLE OF VIOLENCE DEATHS DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS DEMOCRATIC POLITICS DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS DEPENDENCE DISCRIMINATION DISTRIBUTIONAL CONFLICT DISTRIBUTIONAL CONFLICTS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ELECTIONS ENTREPRENEURS ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC DIVERSITY ETHNIC DIVISION ETHNIC DOMINANCE ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC HETEROGENEITY ETHNIC MAJORITY ETHNIC MINORITIES ETHNIC POLARIZATION EXPLOITATION EXTERNAL SHOCK EXTERNAL SHOCKS EXTORTION GOVERNMENT REPRESSION GRIEVANCE MOTIVATION GROWTH COLLAPSES HIGH RISK HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME PER CAPITA INEQUITIES INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL SECURITY JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION JOURNALISTS LARGE POPULATIONS LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOW INTENSITY CONFLICT MEASURE OF FRACTIONALIZATION MIGRATION MILITARY SPENDING MILITARY STRATEGY MINORITY MODEL OF CONFLICT NATIONALISM NATIONS NATURAL RESOURCES NUMBER OF DEATHS PEACE PEACE RESEARCH PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT POLARIZATION POLICE POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL CHANGE POLITICAL CONFLICT POLITICAL INSTABILITY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POLITICAL POWER POLITICAL PROCESS POLITICAL RIGHTS POLITICAL SYSTEMS POLITICAL VIOLENCE POPULOUS COUNTRIES POST-CONFLICT PROGRESS REBEL REBEL GROUPS REBEL LEADERS REBEL MOVEMENTS REBEL ORGANIZATION REBEL ORGANIZATIONS REBEL RECRUITMENT REBELLION REBELLIONS REBELS RECONSTRUCTION REFUGEES RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY RELIGIOUS FRACTIONALIZATION RESPECT RICHER COUNTRIES RIOT RIOTS RISK OF CONFLICT RISK OF WAR SOCIAL CONFLICT SOCIAL CONFLICTS SOCIAL DIVERSITY SOCIAL FRACTIONALIZATION SPATIAL DISPERSION STATE UNIVERSITY TERRORISM TERRORIST URBAN BIAS VIOLENCE VIOLENT CONFLICT VIOLENT MEANS VIOLENT PROTEST
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

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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.

Riots, Coups and Civil War : Revisiting the Greed and Grievance Debate

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