Youth bulge and civil war: Why a country’s share of young adults explains only non-ethnic wars
Youth bulge and civil war: Why a country’s share of young adults explains only non-ethnic wars
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青年膨胀和内战:为什么一个国家的年轻人比例只能解释非种族战争
DOI:
10.1177/0738894214544613
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
D. Miodownik
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作者:
O. Yair;D. Miodownik
Scholars agree that young men carry out most acts of political violence. Still, there is no consensus on the link between relatively large youth cohorts and the onset of violent, armed intra-state conflicts. In this paper, we examine the effect of youth bulge, a measure of the relative abundance of youth in a country, on the onset of two different types of civil wars—ethnic and non-ethnic wars. Building on and extending three datasets used by other scholars, we theoretically argue and empirically substantiate that, as a result of the negative effects of youth bulge on the economic conditions of the youth cohorts in the country, youth bulge affects the onset of non-ethnic wars, but not the onset of ethnic wars. Possible implications and directions for further research are then suggested.
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发表时间:
2013
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作者:
Cederman Lars-Erik
通讯作者:
Cederman Lars-Erik