Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?
Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?
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种族内战和非种族内战的原因相同吗？
DOI：
10.1177/0022002701045003001
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Nicholas Sambanis
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作者：
Nicholas Sambanis
大量关于大规模政治暴力的定量文献已经确定了内战的重要经济和政治决定因素。这些文献将内战视为一个聚合类别，没有考虑身份（种族/宗教）战争是否与非身份战争有不同的原因。作者认为，这是一个重要的区别，身份战争主要是由于政治不满，而不是缺乏经济机会。种族异质性与身份战争和非身份战争的关系也不同。一些系统性变量也是内战的重要决定因素，而这些变量在现有文献中被忽略了。一个重要的新结果是，生活在一个不好的社区，与不民主的邻居或处于战争状态的邻居，大大增加了一个国家经历种族内战的风险。
A booming quantitative literature on large-scale political violence has identified important economic and political determinants of civil war. That literature has treated civil war as an aggregate category and has not considered if identity (ethnic/religious) wars have different causes than nonidentity wars. The author argues that this is an important distinction and that identity wars are due predominantly to political grievance rather than lack of economic opportunity. Ethnic heterogeneity is also associated differently with identity than nonidentity wars. Some systemic variables are also important determinants of civil war, and these have been neglected in the existing literature. An important new result is that living in a bad neighborhood, with undemocratic neighbors or neighbors at war, significantly increases a country's risk of experiencing ethnic civil war.