Sökning: "ethnic fractionalization"

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  1. 1. A closer look at war: analyzing the determinants of conflict in Mozambique during 2013-2021 using geo-referenced data

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Författare :Fátima de Arriba Moreno; [2022]
    Nyckelord :conflicts; vertical inequality; horizontal inequality; ethnic fractionalization; natural resources; climate change; zero-inflated negative binomial model; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : The relationship between inequality and conflict has been widely studied in the literature, finding non-significant results. However, the availability of new statistical software and geographical databases has boosted new literature on the topic, focusing on the regional level. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Countdown to Extinction : A comparative case study of ethnically motivated and climate change-induced communal conflict in Nigeria and Bangladesh

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Författare :Gustav Niläng; [2021]
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    Sammanfattning : Seven years ago, Wegenast and Basedau (2014) refurbished the greed and grievance theory made famous by Collier and Hoeffler, and championed an argument that ethnic fractionalization combined with an abundance of natural resources could especially spur internal conflict in a society. Their theory is the inspiration for this thesis which theorizes that climate change-induced decrease of, and subsequent competition for, natural resources and arable land will risk escalating to communal conflict, which is an underrepresented form of plausible conflict in climate change-triggered settings. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Can Ethnic Diversity Explain the Varying Effects of Regional Trade Agreements?

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Alexandra Sundmark; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Preferential Trade; Ethnic Fractionalization; Ethnic Polarisation; Heterogeneous Effects; PPML; Business and Economics;

    Sammanfattning : In response to the recent stagnation of global economic integration, a large part of world trade today transpires within the boundaries of regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, trade effects are heterogeneous both across and within RTAs - a phenomenon not fully understood. LÄS MER

  5. 4. THE LINK BETWEEN ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION AND CORRUPTION REVISED Ethnic voting in Africa

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Håkan Bernhardsson; [2019-08-08]
    Nyckelord :ethnic fractionalization; corruption; ethnic voting;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis revisits the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and corruption in Africa. An earlier literature argues that ethnic fractionalization leads to corruption via mechanisms involving ethnic favoritism. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Icke-demokratiska attityder i homogena och maktdelande demokratier

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Mattias Tajik; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Icke-demokratiska attityder; Andeweg; Lijphart; homogen; heterogen; fragmentering; fraktionalisering; maktdelning; konsensusdemokrati; majoritär demokrati; proportionella valsystem;

    Sammanfattning : Both consensus democracy and proportional electoral systems have been deemed to favor political participation over political competition. The aim of this paper is to test whether these power-sharing institutional arrangements correlate positively with non-democratic attitudes when the degree of ethnic and religious fragmentation is low. LÄS MER