• DOI:10.1177/0022002708325945
Corpus ID: 145686111

Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War

@article{Bhavnani2009EthnicPE,
  title={Ethnic Polarization, Ethnic Salience, and Civil War},
  author={R. Bhavnani and Dan Miodownik},
  journal={Journal of Conflict Resolution},
  year={2009},
  volume={53},
  pages={30 - 49}
}

R. Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik

Published 2009

Psychology

Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article examines how the relationship between ethnic polarization and civil war could be moderated by different degrees of ethnic salience. Using an agent-based computational model, we analyze the polarization—conflict relationship when ethnic salience is ``fixed''—high for every member of two nominally rival ethnic groups— and ``variable''—permitted to vary across individuals as a function of relative income. We find that (1) when salience is fixed, conflict onset is twice as high at low… CONTINUE READING

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