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} }
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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