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Economic liberalization and the propensity for ethnic conflict: Combining cross-regional quantitative results with case study evidence.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic liberalization and the propensity for ethnic conflict: Combining cross-regional quantitative results with case study evidence./
Author:	Biziouras, Nikolaos.
Description:	917 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Vinod Aggarwal.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3253777

Economic liberalization and the propensity for ethnic conflict: Combining cross-regional quantitative results with case study evidence.
Biziouras, Nikolaos.

Economic liberalization and the propensity for ethnic conflict: Combining cross-regional quantitative results with case study evidence. - 917 p.

Adviser: Vinod Aggarwal.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

My dissertation is a cross-regional, mixed-methods comparison of the causal effects of changes in the level of economic liberalization upon the onset of ethnic conflict. The conventional wisdom, both in economics and political science, has argued that there is a strong linear relationship between changes in the level of economic liberalization and the onset of ethnic conflict. However, if that is the case, then we are faced with the following puzzle: what accounts for the divergent levels of ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies, undertaking increased levels of economic liberalization?Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Economic liberalization and the propensity for ethnic conflict: Combining cross-regional quantitative results with case study evidence.
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520 $a Analytically, I solve this puzzle by arguing that ethnic mobilization is a collective action process. As such it requires both selective incentives and mobilizational resources to occur. State control over the economy matters in the following way: at low levels of economic liberalization, the state dominates the mechanisms of resource allocation and at high levels of economic liberalization, the market dominates the mechanisms of resource allocation. In the former case the political entrepreneur cannot credibly promise his members a greater share of allocated resources while in the latter case the political entrepreneur cannot promise his members a sufficient level of resources. As such, changes in the level of economic liberalization are non-linearly related to the propensity for ethnic conflict, resembling an inverted-U shape. The effects of economic liberalization policies increase the propensity for ethnic conflict at medium levels of economic liberalization and minimize the possibilities for ethnic conflict at both low and high levels of economic liberalization.
520 $a Methodologically, I utilize three complementary research methods: measurement innovation, large-N quantitative analysis and in-depth, cross-regional case studies. My composite index measure of economic liberalization is more reliable, robust and relatively easy to use than existing measures that focus on one or two indicators of economic liberalization. By employing multi-variate logit models and an instrumental variables two-stage least squares technique, I show the statistical significance of variation in levels of economic liberalization in terms of the onset of ethnic conflict and its non-linear relationship to onset of ethnic conflict. Finally, the four case studies, which Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bulgaria and Ethiopia, are intensive historical illustrations of my theoretical argument. Not only do they provide significant within-case variation to hold particularities of culture and geography relatively constant in order to better analyze how change in the level of economic liberalization matters as a causal variable in terms of the onset of ethnic conflict, but they are also "hard" cases. Given their structural characteristics, one would one would expect to find a positive and linear relationship between increases in economic liberalization and ethnic conflict. Yet, empirically, these case studies demonstrate how a non-linear relationship emerges.
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