The role of intra-religious conflicts in intrastate wars
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In: Terrorism and Political Violence, 28.05.2014
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In: Tübinger Arbeitspapiere zur internationalen Politik und Friedensforschung, 47
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In: International studies quarterly: the journal of the International Studies Association, Band 64, Heft 1, S. 168-182
ISSN: 1468-2478
Many countries experience massive aid surges when civil wars end. However, operational contexts tend to remain particularly sensitive due to a combination of persisting local-level cleavages and low-quality state institutions. Consequently, aid provision risks inciting distributional conflicts and violent unrest—most notably when resources are injected into areas of high social heterogeneity or particularly weak state administration. I investigate this argument in the case of postwar Nepal. I combine geo-coded aid data with village-level information on various forms of violent unrest, as well as on social demographics and institutional quality. The panel analyses indicate positive short-term effects of aid on social unrest. More fine-grained estimations reveal that this effect is driven by a short-term escalation of violence against nonstate actors—in particular in ethnically fractionalized villages under the administration of weakly performing local-level state institutions. Descriptive cross-country analyses indicate that aid may have similar violence-inducing effects in other postwar contexts.
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 50, Heft 13, S. 1835-1868
ISSN: 1552-3829
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In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 291-323
ISSN: 1552-3829
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In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 45, S. 22-33
ISSN: 0962-6298
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In: Political geography, Band 45, S. 22-33
ISSN: 0962-6298
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In: Civil wars, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 78-99
ISSN: 1369-8249
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In: Studies in conflict & terrorism, Band 31, Heft 12, S. 1120-1135
ISSN: 1057-610X
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In: Journal of peace research, Band 58, Heft 4, S. 623-639
ISSN: 1460-3578
Do survey participants in conflict zones respond differently if they have been interviewed before? Academic and policy interest in postwar political opinion has increased tremendously. One unexpected consequence of this surge of survey research is a growing probability that individuals will be interviewed multiple times. However, if participating in one survey causes respondents to change their attitudes or behavior, their subsequent survey responses may be biased in comparison to the rest of the sample population. Our article aims to investigate such 'survey participation effects' in conflict contexts. We draw on original survey data collected in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In our representative sample, 18% of respondents report that they have been interviewed before. Multivariate analyses demonstrate that their stated attitudes on social relations, political institutions, gender norms, and wartime victimization differ substantively from the responses of first-time interviewees. Moreover, our analyses indicate that experienced respondents have specific response styles – in particular, a tendency to support extreme response options. While substantive bias in multivariate analyses seems to be rather rare, our findings indicate that researchers should be aware of the footprints of data collection efforts in areas frequently targeted by household and opinion surveys.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 116, S. 100-112
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In: The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 63, Heft 1, S. 31-58
ISSN: 1552-8766
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In: Politics & society, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 159-172
ISSN: 1552-7514
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In: Conflict management and peace science: the official journal of the Peace Science Society (International), Band 33, Heft 1, S. 67-88
ISSN: 1549-9219
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In: Civil wars, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 201-221
ISSN: 1743-968X
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