| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10617 |
| DP10617 Colonial Legacy, Polarization and Linguistic Disenfranchisement: The Case of the Sri Lankan War | |
| Victor Ginsburgh; Shlomo Weber; Paul Castaneda Dower | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-24 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We introduce two societal polarization measures that, unlike standard approaches based on time invariant and arbitrary divisions of a society into ethnolinguistic or religious groups, take into account how a society's history can alter inter-group relations. One of our measures allows for different inter-group divisions due to different experiences in the colonial era, while the other allows these divisions to change as a result of violence throughout the conflict episode. By examining the protracted war in Sri Lanka and applying these indices to a data set describing victims of terrorist attacks by district and year, we find that, for each of our polarization indices, there is a positive effect on the number of victims from terrorist attacks. The historical underpinnings of our indices allow us to demonstrate in a quantitative and concrete way the relevance of the historical path for understanding patterns of civil conflict. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Colonial legacy Conflict Linguistic disenfranchisement Polarization |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10617 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539449 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Victor Ginsburgh,Shlomo Weber,Paul Castaneda Dower. DP10617 Colonial Legacy, Polarization and Linguistic Disenfranchisement: The Case of the Sri Lankan War. 2015. |
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