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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
An influential conventional wisdom holds that civil wars proliferated rapidly with the end of the Cold War and that the root cause of many or most of these has been ethnic and religious antagonisms.… Expand
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the near Abroad
- Igor A. Zevelev, D. Laitin
- Political Science
- 2000
Identity in formation: the Russian-speaking populations in the near abroad
- D. Laitin
- Economics, Political Science
- 1998
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
Though both journalists and the academic literature on ethnic conflict give the opposite impression, peaceful and even cooperative relations between ethnic groups are far more common than is… Expand
Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity
We examine the theoretical implications of the observation that ethnic identities are socially constructed for explaining ethnic violence, distinguishing between two classes of mechanisms. If… Expand
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change
- Avner Greif, D. Laitin
- Economics
- American Political Science Review
- 1 July 2004
This paper asks (a) why and how institutions change, (b) how an institution persists in a changing environment, and (c) how processes that it unleashes lead to its own demise. The paper shows that… Expand
Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness: Kto Kogo? : A Cross-Country Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism
- A. Krueger, D. Laitin
- Political Science
- 1 February 2008
Introduction Popular wisdom in the burgeoning literature on terrorism focuses on the economic motivations of terrorists. “We fight against poverty,” President George W. Bush explained in Monterrey,… Expand
Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France
- Claire L Adida, D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort
- Sociology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 22 November 2010
Is there a Muslim disadvantage in economic integration for second-generation immigrants to Europe? Previous research has failed to isolate the effect that religion may have on an immigrant family's… Expand
Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa
- D. Laitin
- Political Science, Sociology
- 24 April 1992
Preface Part I. Language Repertoires and the State: 1. Language repertoires as political outcomes 2. Three theories explaining language outcomes 3. Do language outcomes matter? Part II. Sociological… Expand
Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change Among the Yoruba
- D. Laitin
- Sociology
- 1 September 1987
In this ambitious work, David D. Laitin explores the politics of religious change among the Yoruba of Nigeria, then uses his findings to expand leading theories of ethnic and religious politics.