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Expanded Trade and GDP Data
- K. Gleditsch
- Economics
- 1 October 2002
Many sources of economic data cover only a limited set of states at any given point in time. Data are often systematically missing for some states over certain time periods. In the context of…
Introducing Archigos: A Dataset of Political Leaders
- H. E. Goemans, K. Gleditsch, G. Chiozza
- Political Science
- 1 March 2009
Scholars for a long time theorized about the role of political leaders, but empirical research has been limited by the lack of systematic data about individual leaders. Archigos is a new dataset with…
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
- L. Cederman, Nils B. Weidmann, K. Gleditsch
- SociologyAmerican Political Science Review
- 11 July 2011
Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on…
Diffusion and the International Context of Democratization
- K. Gleditsch, M. Ward
- Political ScienceInternational Organization
- 1 October 2006
Democracy does not evolve sui generis. The spatial clustering in democracy and transitions suggests that international factors play a prominent role in forging democracies as well as influencing…
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
- L. Cederman, K. Gleditsch, H. Buhaug
- Sociology
- 26 August 2013
© Lars-Erik Cederman, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, and Halvard Buhaug 2013. This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate…
Refugees and the Spread of Civil War
- Idean Salehyan, K. Gleditsch
- Political ScienceInternational Organization
- 1 April 2006
Certain regions of the world experience more conflict than others. Previous analyses have shown that a civil war in one country significantly increases the likelihood that neighboring states will…
Space Is More than Geography: Using Spatial Econometrics in the Study of Political Economy
- Nathaniel N. Beck, K. Gleditsch, K. Beardsley
- Economics
- 1 March 2006
Although spatial econometrics is being used more frequently in political science, most applications are still based on geographic notions of distance. Here we argue that it is often more fruitful to…
Transnational Dimensions of Civil War
- K. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 1 May 2007
Existing research has related civil war primarily to country-specific factors or processes that take place within individual states experiencing conflict. Many contemporary civil wars, however,…
Contagion or Confusion? Why Conflicts Cluster in Space
- H. Buhaug, K. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 1 June 2008
Civil wars cluster in space as well as time. In this study, we develop and evaluate empirically alternative explanations for this observed clustering. We consider whether the spatial pattern of…
Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War
- J. Wucherpfennig, Nils W. Metternich, L. Cederman, K. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 7 January 2012
Previous research has focused primarily on how ethnicity may trigger civil war, and its effect on conflict duration remains disputed. Rather than treating conflict as a direct consequence of ethnic…
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