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Secession and social polarization: Evidence from Catalonia

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  • Laia Balcells
  • José Fernández-Albertos
  • Alexander Kuo

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Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that secessionist conflicts can polarize along both policy and ethnic group lines even when they take the form of non-violent disputes. However, polarization does not necessarily lead to violence.

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  • Laia Balcells & José Fernández-Albertos & Alexander Kuo, 2021. "Secession and social polarization: Evidence from Catalonia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-2, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    1. Han Il Chang & Leonid Peisakhin, 2019. "Building Cooperation among Groups in Conflict: An Experiment on Intersectarian Cooperation in Lebanon," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 63(1), pages 146-162, January.
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