Besley, Timothy and Persson, Torsten (2011) The logic of political violence. The quarterly journal of economics, 126 (3). pp. 1411-1445. ISSN 0033-5533
Abstract
This article offers a unified approach for studying political violence whether it emerges as repression or civil war. We formulate a model where an incumbent or opposition can use violence to maintain or acquire power to study which political and economic factors drive one-sided or two-sided violence (repression or civil war). The model predicts a hierarchy of violence states from peace via repression to civil war; and suggests a natural empirical approach. Exploiting only within-country variation in the data, we show that violence is associated with shocks that can affect wages and aid. As in the theory, these effects are only present where political institutions are noncohesive.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ISI |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | N - Economic History > N4 - Government, War, Law, and Regulation > N40 - General, International, or Comparative |
| Sets: | Departments > Economics Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/38596/ |
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