Who Inherits the State? Colonial Rule and Postcolonial Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Wucherpfennig (0000-0001-8935-1373, University College London and ETH Zürich), Philipp Hunziker (ETH Zurich), Lars-Erik Cederman (0000-0002-8511-0617, ETH Zurich), Lars‐erik Cederman (ETH Zurich) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 882-898 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12236 |
| OpenAlex | W2185506670 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 73 |
Postulating grievance‐based mechanisms, several recent studies show that politically excluded ethnic groups are more likely to experience civil conflict. However, critics argue that endogeneity may undermine this finding since governments' decisions to include or exclude could be motivated by the anticipation of conflict. We counter this threat to inference by articulating a causal pathway that explains ethnic groups' access to power independently of conflict. Focusing on postcolonial states, we exploit differences in colonial empires' strategies of rule to model which ethnic groups were represented in government at the time of independence. This identification strategy allows estimating the exogenous effect of inclusiveness on conflict. We find that previous studies have tended to understate the conflict‐dampening impact of political inclusion. This finding suggests that grievances have been prematurely dismissed from conventional explanations of conflict, and that policy makers should consider conflict resolution methods based on power sharing and group rights
Civil Conflict · Conflict resolution · Conflict resolution research · Conflict theories · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Grievance · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
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Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects
Strategic Civil War Aims and the Resource Curse
Dominant Nationalism and Civil War
Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States
Political Violence in Kenya
Post-Instrument Bias
Inequality, Culture, and Violence
Ethnic disloyalty or federal loyalty? A case of contesting Baloch representation in postcolonial Pakistan
Post-election violence in Kenya
Policing young minds
Inequalities Between Ethnic Groups, Conflict, and Political Organizations
The Politics of Co-optation
Does Ethnopolitical Exclusion Cause Civil War Onset via Grievances? Evidence from 15 Case Studies
Conflict and the separateness of peoples
Pre-colonial centralisation, traditional indirect rule, and state capacity in Africa
Research Note
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Historical legacies of colonial indirect rule
Chiefs and Pre-Election Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Horizontal inequality and armed conflict
Choosing tactics
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience
Traditional Authorities and Strategies in Demands for Self-Determination
The colonial origins of ethnic warfare
Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power
Bayesian Versus Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Treatment Effects in Bivariate Probit Instrumental Variable Models
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Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and Democracy
Uncertainty, Cleavages, and Ethnic Coalitions
A Conditional Model of Local Income Shock and Civil Conflict
A Reanalysis of the Relationship between Indirect Rule, Ethnic Inclusion, and Decolonization
Precolonial and Colonial Origins of Inclusive Peace
Ethnic empowering policies and postcolonial political exclusion in the British empire
A tale of two empires
Fighting over nation or state
Community‐based legislative representation and postcolonial ethnic civil warfare in former British and French colonies
Past and Present Group Exclusion and Conflict
Inclusion, Recognition, and Inter-Group Comparisons
Choosing Whom to Target
Losing Hearts & Minds
Dynamics and Logics of Civil War
Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India
What Were the Consequences of Decolonization
Demand for Statehood
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War
Making Peace or Preventing It? UN Peacekeeping, Terrorism, and Civil War Negotiations
History and Ethnic Conflict
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Protection Through Presence
Self-Enforcing Power Sharing in Weak States
Winning the Peace Locally
Ethnic Violence in Africa
Threats at Home and Abroad
The Violent Legacy of Fascism
Early Statehood and Support for Autocratic Rule in Africa
The Precolonial Origins of African Nationalism
Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa
Ethnic Coalitions and the Logic of Political Survival in Authoritarian Regimes
The Diffusion of Inclusion
Power Sharing
Foundations of the Vanguard
Cui bono? business elites and interstate conflict
The strategic logic of policing in British India
Territorial origins of center-seeking and self-determination claims in Africa
The long memory of the land
The two faces of power-sharing
Communalizing Colonial Policies and Postcolonial Ethnic Warfare
Predicting the decline of ethnic civil war
The origins of policing institutions
No extraction without representation
Pushing the doors open
Antidote to Backsliding
Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Conflict
Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies
The Comparative Politics of Colonialism and Its Legacies
Colonial legacy and contemporary civil violence
Ethnicity and nationalism
Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone
The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Ethnopolitics
Lineages of Despotism and Development
Limited information estimators and exogeneity tests for simultaneous probit models
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
Peoples versus states
States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
Nations and Nationalism
State building in the African countryside
Governance and Civil War Onset
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
Greed and grievance in civil war
Understanding Ethnic Violence
Civil War
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time
Federalism, the Geographic Location of Groups, and Conflict
British Colonial Legacies and Political Development
Hausaland Divided
Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
West Africa Under Colonial Rule
Ethnicity and conflict management in post-colonial Africa
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science
Behind the Curve
The Wars Within
Ethnic groups in conflict
Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War
An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule
Autocratic Institutions and Civil Conflict Contagion
Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa
Understanding Interaction Models
Who Owns the State? Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Post‐Colonial Societies
Why Minorities Rebel
It Takes Two
The Political Origins of African Military Coups
The Legacy of Western Overseas Colonialism on Democratic Survival
Hypothesis Testing and Multiplicative Interaction Terms
The creation and matintenance of national boundaries in Africa
Dismemberment and Suffocation
The Institutional Origins of Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout
Power Sharing and Leadership Dynamics in Authoritarian Regimes
Foreign Aid, Democratization, and Civil Conflict
Testing Theories of Strategic Choice
The Origins of Patronage Politics
France and Britain in Africa
The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics
The Enemy Within
Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis
Civil War
Colonial Style and Post-Colonial Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Armed Conflict 1946-2001
Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset
The Autocratic Legacy of Early Statehood
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Dividing and Ruling the World? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence
Indirect Rule-French and British Style
Colonialism and Development
One Hundred Million Frenchmen
| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 7,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 77 |