Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Empowerment
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Keywords
Minorities; Ethnic Conflict; Decentralization; Panel Data Analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
- H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIG-2007-06-30 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-POL-2007-06-30 (Positive Political Economics)
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