A Review of Recent Advances and Future Directions in the Quantitative Literature on Civil War

By Nicholas Sambanis. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Economic Shocks and Civil War (2009, background): “7See Sambanis (2002) and Miguel and Blattman (2009) for overviews of this literature. of variation across countries.”
Civil wars and economic growth: A regional comparison (2002, background): “Sambanis (2002) provides an excellent up-to-date overview of the recent literature on civil wars.”
Climate Shocks and Sino-nomadic Conflict (2011, background): “…have identified a variety of factors, ranging from labor market conditions (Collier & Hoeffler, 1998, 2001, 2002) and economic growth (Elbadawi & Sambanis, 2002; Fearon & Laitin, 2003; Miguel et al., 2004) to ethnic fractionalization and democracy (Sambanis, 2002), as having an effect on the…”
Population Pressure, Horizontal Inequality and Political Violence: A Disaggregated Study of Indonesian Provinces, 1990–2003 (2011, background): “The consensus is that conflict risk is lower in established democracies with high per-capita income levels (Sambanis, 2002 ).”
State Capacity, Conflict and Development (2009, neutral): “The causes of civil war are subject to a large theoretical and empirical literature in political science and economics (see e.g., Sambanis, 2002 and Blattman and Miguel, 2009 for broad reviews).”
Political opportunity structures, democracy, and civil war (2010, background): “In turn, empirical research on civil war has considered a variety of measures intended to reflect either grievances that could give rise to motives for protest or opportunities for resort to violence (see e.g. Sambanis, 2002, 2004, for useful reviews).”