M Mousseau
Biographic Data
| ID | 37604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Mousseau |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mousseau |
| SIGNATURE | MOUSSEAU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7996-4595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 455 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject
Allocation of public goods, ethnic favouritism and the risk of local ethnic wars in sub-Saharan Africa
Ethnic favouritism in the distribution of public goods has been a common problem in multi-ethnic countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Is inequitable allocation of public goods associated with ethnic conflict and war? This study connects the literatures on ethnic competition, rent-seeking and public goods and examines whether impartial allocation of public goods by governments affect the onset of local ethnic wars in 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa…
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis
Studies have observed a correlation of wealth with democracy, yet it remains unclear how wealth can cause or stabilize democracy. Recent research has shown how the causal mechanism may lie in the economic norm of contracting, as democracy becomes valued as the best means for sustaining a nonpredatory government that enforces contracts with impartiality. We extend this research to investigate if norms of economic contracting in societies give rise…
The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace
Permanent world peace is beginning to emerge. States with developed market-oriented economies have foremost interests in the principle of self-determination of all states as the foundation for a robust global marketplace. War among these states, even making preparations for war, is not possible, because they are in a natural alliance to preserve and protect the global order. Among other states, weaker powers, fearing those that are stronger, tend…
Grasping the scientific evidence: The contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace
This article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. A series of studies have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace, but defenders of the democratic peace claim that these studies contain measurement errors, that democracy correlates with peace at least in interaction with contractualist economy, and that the causation is reversed from democracy …
Why some countries are immune from the resource curse: The role of economic norms
The political resource curse - the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy - is a well-established correlate of authoritarianism. A long-standing puzzle, however, is why some countries seem to be immune from it. We address this issue systematically by distinguishing two kinds of economies: contract-intensive, where individuals normally obtain their incomes in the marketplace; and clientelist, where individuals normally obta…
The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy1
Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract-intensive economy, is considered; this pattern holds in analyses of wars, fatal militarized interstate conflicts (Mousseau 2009), and interstate crises (Mousseau et al. 2013). These studies rescind the primary evidence for democracy being a cause of the democratic peace and indica…
Capitalist Development and Civil War1: Capitalist Development and Civil War
Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the theory's predictions linking market-capitalism with …
Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: Survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries
Survey respondents in 14 countries representing 62% of the world's Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with urban poverty. These results are consistent with the thesis that Islamist terrorists obtain support and recruits from the urban poor, who pursue their economic interests off the market in politics in c…
Coming to Terms with the Capitalist Peace
Capitalism has long been maligned as a cause of war, so when Stuart Bremer undertook what was probably the first systematic look at capitalism and war at the dyadic level he was surprised to find t
The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace
Democracy does not cause peace among nations. Rather, domestic conditions cause both democracy and peace. From 1961 to 2001, democratic nations engaged in numerous fatal conflicts with each other, including at least one war, yet not a single fatal militarized incident occurred between nations with contract-intensive economies-those where most people have the opportunity to participate in the market. In contract-intensive economies, individuals le…
The Contracting Roots of Human Rights
There is a broad consensus that democracy and economic development are among the key factors that promote better human rights practices in nations, but there is little agreement on how this happens. This article reports evidence that human rights, democracy, and development may all be at least partially explained by a fourth factor: market-contracting. Studies in economic history and sociology have established that in developing countries many ex…
Some Systemic Roots of The Democratic Peace
Whatever happened to systemic analysis in the study of international relations? According to Karen Rasler and William Thompson in Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics, at least part of the answer lies in the deluge of dyadic analyses associated with the rise of democratic peace research in the 1990s. However, the “abandonment of a systems perspective is premature” (p. 177), they contend, an…
Comparing New Theory with Prior Beliefs: Market Civilization and the Democratic Peace
Stuart Bremer counseled against the falsificationist convention of testing new models against the null hypothesis of no model. Instead, new models should be compared against prior beliefs, and theories should compete, whenever possible, on a field of equivalent test conditions. This article applies Stuart Bremer's notion of comparative theory testing by comparing a new model of contract norms with the prior institutionalist model of democratic pe…
The Sources of Terrorism
October 01 2003 The Sources of Terrorism Charles Knight, Charles Knight Co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Murphy, Melissa Murphy Research Assistant to the Project on Defense Alternatives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate P…
Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror
January 01 2003 Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Online Issn: 1531-4804 Print Issn: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fel…
The Nexus of Market Society, Liberal Preferences, and Democratic Peace: Interdisciplinary Theory and Evidence
Drawing on literature from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology, an interdisciplinary theory is presented that links the rise of contractual forms of exchange within a society with the proliferation of liberal values, democratic legitimacy, and peace among democratic nations. The theory accommodates old facts and yields a large number of new and testable ones, including the fact that the peace among democracies is limited to m…
How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace
Over the past decade the liberal peace—the finding that democracy and economic interdependence contribute to peace among nations—has emerged as one of the strongest and most important results in the scientific study of international relations. Recent research indicates, however, that the pacific benefits of democracy and interdependence may not be unconditional but contingent upon the wealth of nations. We assess the independent and conditional i…
An Economic Limitation to the Zone of Democratic Peace and Cooperation
The zone of democratic peace and cooperation is the premier nontrivial fact of international relations. Recent research, however, has shown that the democratic peace is substantially limited to the economically developed democracies (Mousseau, 2000). Is the zone of democratic cooperation also limited to the economically developed democracies? With the observation of most nations from 1919 to 1992, robust support is found for this hypothesis. It a…
Market Prosperity, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Peace
A model is introduced that yields a single parsimonious explanation for a diverse range of political phenomena, including the processes of democratic consolidation and peace among democratic nations. The model predicts democratic values to arise from the norms of contract that are endemic in developed market economies and yields the novel contingent claim that the peace among democratic nations may be a pattern limited to those democracies with d…
A Test for Reverse Causality in the Democratic Peace Relationship
Several studies have suggested the possibility of reverse causation in the `democratic peace' relationship: that the well-known extreme rarity of wars between democratic nations may be partially or wholly explained by a negative impact of war on democracy. Three kinds of war-on-regime effects are discussed. Anterior effects are regime changes that occur in preparation for wars; concurrent effects are those that occur during the course of a war; a…
Democracy and Compromise in Militarized Interstate Conflicts, 1816-1992
Research has documented that democratic nations are about 30 times less likely to originate interstate wars and about 3 times less likely to originate militarized interstate disputes among themselves than other types of regimes. Compromise is a means for resolving conflict whereby disputants agree to mutual concessions. Many researchers contend that compromise is among the central defining features of democratic political culture. If a norm of co…
Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration
It is well documented that democratic nations very rarely engage in militarized conflict with other free nations. This study expands on this notable pattern by examining the possibility that democracies may also be more amenable to collaborate in militarized interstate conflict. A theoretical rationale for this expectation is developed resting on the cooperative norms of democratic political culture. With empirical analysis encompassing all natio…
Market Prosperity, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Peace
A model is introduced that yields a single parsimonious explanation for a diverse range of political phenomena, including the processes of democratic consolidation and peace among democratic nations. The model predicts democratic values to arise from the norms of contract that are endemic in developed market economies and yields the novel contingent claim that the peace among democratic nations may be a pattern limited to those democracies with d…
The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace
Democracy does not cause peace among nations. Rather, domestic conditions cause both democracy and peace. From 1961 to 2001, democratic nations engaged in numerous fatal conflicts with each other, including at least one war, yet not a single fatal militarized incident occurred between nations with contract-intensive economies-those where most people have the opportunity to participate in the market. In contract-intensive economies, individuals le…
The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy1
Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract-intensive economy, is considered; this pattern holds in analyses of wars, fatal militarized interstate conflicts (Mousseau 2009), and interstate crises (Mousseau et al. 2013). These studies rescind the primary evidence for democracy being a cause of the democratic peace and indica…
Democracy and Compromise in Militarized Interstate Conflicts, 1816-1992
Research has documented that democratic nations are about 30 times less likely to originate interstate wars and about 3 times less likely to originate militarized interstate disputes among themselves than other types of regimes. Compromise is a means for resolving conflict whereby disputants agree to mutual concessions. Many researchers contend that compromise is among the central defining features of democratic political culture. If a norm of co…
The Nexus of Market Society, Liberal Preferences, and Democratic Peace: Interdisciplinary Theory and Evidence
Drawing on literature from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology, an interdisciplinary theory is presented that links the rise of contractual forms of exchange within a society with the proliferation of liberal values, democratic legitimacy, and peace among democratic nations. The theory accommodates old facts and yields a large number of new and testable ones, including the fact that the peace among democracies is limited to m…
How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace
Over the past decade the liberal peace—the finding that democracy and economic interdependence contribute to peace among nations—has emerged as one of the strongest and most important results in the scientific study of international relations. Recent research indicates, however, that the pacific benefits of democracy and interdependence may not be unconditional but contingent upon the wealth of nations. We assess the independent and conditional i…
Why some countries are immune from the resource curse: The role of economic norms
The political resource curse - the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy - is a well-established correlate of authoritarianism. A long-standing puzzle, however, is why some countries seem to be immune from it. We address this issue systematically by distinguishing two kinds of economies: contract-intensive, where individuals normally obtain their incomes in the marketplace; and clientelist, where individuals normally obta…
Capitalist Development and Civil War1: Capitalist Development and Civil War
Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the theory's predictions linking market-capitalism with …
Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror
January 01 2003 Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Online Issn: 1531-4804 Print Issn: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fel…
Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: Survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries
Survey respondents in 14 countries representing 62% of the world's Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with urban poverty. These results are consistent with the thesis that Islamist terrorists obtain support and recruits from the urban poor, who pursue their economic interests off the market in politics in c…
A Test for Reverse Causality in the Democratic Peace Relationship
Several studies have suggested the possibility of reverse causation in the `democratic peace' relationship: that the well-known extreme rarity of wars between democratic nations may be partially or wholly explained by a negative impact of war on democracy. Three kinds of war-on-regime effects are discussed. Anterior effects are regime changes that occur in preparation for wars; concurrent effects are those that occur during the course of a war; a…
An Economic Limitation to the Zone of Democratic Peace and Cooperation
The zone of democratic peace and cooperation is the premier nontrivial fact of international relations. Recent research, however, has shown that the democratic peace is substantially limited to the economically developed democracies (Mousseau, 2000). Is the zone of democratic cooperation also limited to the economically developed democracies? With the observation of most nations from 1919 to 1992, robust support is found for this hypothesis. It a…
Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration
It is well documented that democratic nations very rarely engage in militarized conflict with other free nations. This study expands on this notable pattern by examining the possibility that democracies may also be more amenable to collaborate in militarized interstate conflict. A theoretical rationale for this expectation is developed resting on the cooperative norms of democratic political culture. With empirical analysis encompassing all natio…
The Contracting Roots of Human Rights
There is a broad consensus that democracy and economic development are among the key factors that promote better human rights practices in nations, but there is little agreement on how this happens. This article reports evidence that human rights, democracy, and development may all be at least partially explained by a fourth factor: market-contracting. Studies in economic history and sociology have established that in developing countries many ex…
Coming to Terms with the Capitalist Peace
Capitalism has long been maligned as a cause of war, so when Stuart Bremer undertook what was probably the first systematic look at capitalism and war at the dyadic level he was surprised to find t
Comparing New Theory with Prior Beliefs: Market Civilization and the Democratic Peace
Stuart Bremer counseled against the falsificationist convention of testing new models against the null hypothesis of no model. Instead, new models should be compared against prior beliefs, and theories should compete, whenever possible, on a field of equivalent test conditions. This article applies Stuart Bremer's notion of comparative theory testing by comparing a new model of contract norms with the prior institutionalist model of democratic pe…
The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace
Permanent world peace is beginning to emerge. States with developed market-oriented economies have foremost interests in the principle of self-determination of all states as the foundation for a robust global marketplace. War among these states, even making preparations for war, is not possible, because they are in a natural alliance to preserve and protect the global order. Among other states, weaker powers, fearing those that are stronger, tend…
Grasping the scientific evidence: The contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace
This article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. A series of studies have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace, but defenders of the democratic peace claim that these studies contain measurement errors, that democracy correlates with peace at least in interaction with contractualist economy, and that the causation is reversed from democracy …
Some Systemic Roots of The Democratic Peace
Whatever happened to systemic analysis in the study of international relations? According to Karen Rasler and William Thompson in Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics, at least part of the answer lies in the deluge of dyadic analyses associated with the rise of democratic peace research in the 1990s. However, the “abandonment of a systems perspective is premature” (p. 177), they contend, an…
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis
Studies have observed a correlation of wealth with democracy, yet it remains unclear how wealth can cause or stabilize democracy. Recent research has shown how the causal mechanism may lie in the economic norm of contracting, as democracy becomes valued as the best means for sustaining a nonpredatory government that enforces contracts with impartiality. We extend this research to investigate if norms of economic contracting in societies give rise…
The Sources of Terrorism
October 01 2003 The Sources of Terrorism Charles Knight, Charles Knight Co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Murphy, Melissa Murphy Research Assistant to the Project on Defense Alternatives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate P…
Democracy and Militarized Interstate Collaboration
It is well documented that democratic nations very rarely engage in militarized conflict with other free nations. This study expands on this notable pattern by examining the possibility that democracies may also be more amenable to collaborate in militarized interstate conflict. A theoretical rationale for this expectation is developed resting on the cooperative norms of democratic political culture. With empirical analysis encompassing all natio…
Democracy and Compromise in Militarized Interstate Conflicts, 1816-1992
Research has documented that democratic nations are about 30 times less likely to originate interstate wars and about 3 times less likely to originate militarized interstate disputes among themselves than other types of regimes. Compromise is a means for resolving conflict whereby disputants agree to mutual concessions. Many researchers contend that compromise is among the central defining features of democratic political culture. If a norm of co…
A Test for Reverse Causality in the Democratic Peace Relationship
Several studies have suggested the possibility of reverse causation in the `democratic peace' relationship: that the well-known extreme rarity of wars between democratic nations may be partially or wholly explained by a negative impact of war on democracy. Three kinds of war-on-regime effects are discussed. Anterior effects are regime changes that occur in preparation for wars; concurrent effects are those that occur during the course of a war; a…
Market Prosperity, Democratic Consolidation, and Democratic Peace
A model is introduced that yields a single parsimonious explanation for a diverse range of political phenomena, including the processes of democratic consolidation and peace among democratic nations. The model predicts democratic values to arise from the norms of contract that are endemic in developed market economies and yields the novel contingent claim that the peace among democratic nations may be a pattern limited to those democracies with d…
An Economic Limitation to the Zone of Democratic Peace and Cooperation
The zone of democratic peace and cooperation is the premier nontrivial fact of international relations. Recent research, however, has shown that the democratic peace is substantially limited to the economically developed democracies (Mousseau, 2000). Is the zone of democratic cooperation also limited to the economically developed democracies? With the observation of most nations from 1919 to 1992, robust support is found for this hypothesis. It a…
The Sources of Terrorism
October 01 2003 The Sources of Terrorism Charles Knight, Charles Knight Co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Melissa Murphy, Melissa Murphy Research Assistant to the Project on Defense Alternatives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate P…
Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror
January 01 2003 Market Civilization and Its Clash with Terror Michael Mousseau Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Mousseau Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey Online Issn: 1531-4804 Print Issn: 0162-2889 © 2003 President and Fel…
The Nexus of Market Society, Liberal Preferences, and Democratic Peace: Interdisciplinary Theory and Evidence
Drawing on literature from Anthropology, Economics, Political Science and Sociology, an interdisciplinary theory is presented that links the rise of contractual forms of exchange within a society with the proliferation of liberal values, democratic legitimacy, and peace among democratic nations. The theory accommodates old facts and yields a large number of new and testable ones, including the fact that the peace among democracies is limited to m…
How the Wealth of Nations Conditions the Liberal Peace
Over the past decade the liberal peace—the finding that democracy and economic interdependence contribute to peace among nations—has emerged as one of the strongest and most important results in the scientific study of international relations. Recent research indicates, however, that the pacific benefits of democracy and interdependence may not be unconditional but contingent upon the wealth of nations. We assess the independent and conditional i…
Comparing New Theory with Prior Beliefs: Market Civilization and the Democratic Peace
Stuart Bremer counseled against the falsificationist convention of testing new models against the null hypothesis of no model. Instead, new models should be compared against prior beliefs, and theories should compete, whenever possible, on a field of equivalent test conditions. This article applies Stuart Bremer's notion of comparative theory testing by comparing a new model of contract norms with the prior institutionalist model of democratic pe…
Some Systemic Roots of The Democratic Peace
Whatever happened to systemic analysis in the study of international relations? According to Karen Rasler and William Thompson in Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics, at least part of the answer lies in the deluge of dyadic analyses associated with the rise of democratic peace research in the 1990s. However, the “abandonment of a systems perspective is premature” (p. 177), they contend, an…
The Contracting Roots of Human Rights
There is a broad consensus that democracy and economic development are among the key factors that promote better human rights practices in nations, but there is little agreement on how this happens. This article reports evidence that human rights, democracy, and development may all be at least partially explained by a fourth factor: market-contracting. Studies in economic history and sociology have established that in developing countries many ex…
The Social Market Roots of Democratic Peace
Democracy does not cause peace among nations. Rather, domestic conditions cause both democracy and peace. From 1961 to 2001, democratic nations engaged in numerous fatal conflicts with each other, including at least one war, yet not a single fatal militarized incident occurred between nations with contract-intensive economies-those where most people have the opportunity to participate in the market. In contract-intensive economies, individuals le…
Coming to Terms with the Capitalist Peace
Capitalism has long been maligned as a cause of war, so when Stuart Bremer undertook what was probably the first systematic look at capitalism and war at the dyadic level he was surprised to find t
Urban poverty and support for Islamist terror: Survey results of Muslims in fourteen countries
Survey respondents in 14 countries representing 62% of the world's Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with urban poverty. These results are consistent with the thesis that Islamist terrorists obtain support and recruits from the urban poor, who pursue their economic interests off the market in politics in c…
Capitalist Development and Civil War1: Capitalist Development and Civil War
Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the theory's predictions linking market-capitalism with …
The Democratic Peace Unraveled: It’s the Economy1
Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract-intensive economy, is considered; this pattern holds in analyses of wars, fatal militarized interstate conflicts (Mousseau 2009), and interstate crises (Mousseau et al. 2013). These studies rescind the primary evidence for democracy being a cause of the democratic peace and indica…
Grasping the scientific evidence: The contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace
This article draws on new data and analyses to investigate whether the contractualist peace supersedes the democratic peace. A series of studies have shown that contractualist economy accounts for the democratic peace, but defenders of the democratic peace claim that these studies contain measurement errors, that democracy correlates with peace at least in interaction with contractualist economy, and that the causation is reversed from democracy …
Why some countries are immune from the resource curse: The role of economic norms
The political resource curse - the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy - is a well-established correlate of authoritarianism. A long-standing puzzle, however, is why some countries seem to be immune from it. We address this issue systematically by distinguishing two kinds of economies: contract-intensive, where individuals normally obtain their incomes in the marketplace; and clientelist, where individuals normally obta…
The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace
Permanent world peace is beginning to emerge. States with developed market-oriented economies have foremost interests in the principle of self-determination of all states as the foundation for a robust global marketplace. War among these states, even making preparations for war, is not possible, because they are in a natural alliance to preserve and protect the global order. Among other states, weaker powers, fearing those that are stronger, tend…
The economic origins of democratic civil liberties: A cross-country analysis
Studies have observed a correlation of wealth with democracy, yet it remains unclear how wealth can cause or stabilize democracy. Recent research has shown how the causal mechanism may lie in the economic norm of contracting, as democracy becomes valued as the best means for sustaining a nonpredatory government that enforces contracts with impartiality. We extend this research to investigate if norms of economic contracting in societies give rise…
Allocation of public goods, ethnic favouritism and the risk of local ethnic wars in sub-Saharan Africa
Ethnic favouritism in the distribution of public goods has been a common problem in multi-ethnic countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Is inequitable allocation of public goods associated with ethnic conflict and war? This study connects the literatures on ethnic competition, rent-seeking and public goods and examines whether impartial allocation of public goods by governments affect the onset of local ethnic wars in 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa…
Is the decline of war a delusion? An exchange between researchers following the publication of Azar Gat’s article on the subject
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