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Conflict and Governance

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Amihai Glazer

    1. Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

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  2. Kai A. Konrad

    1. WZB, Berlin, Germany

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  • State-of-the-art applications of economic theory to issues of conflict

  • Studies of crime, dictatorship, and revolutions with interesting historical material

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. The wide importance of conflict

    • Amihai Glazer, Kai A. Konrad
    Pages 1-6

  3. Social identity, inequality and conflict

    • James A. Robinson
    Pages 7-21

  4. Butter and guns: Complementarity between economic and military competition

    • Herschel I. Grossman, Juan Mendoza
    Pages 23-31

  5. Targeting and political support for welfare spending

    • Karl Ove Moene, Michael Wallerstein
    Pages 33-54

  6. How to understand, and deal with dictatorship: an economist’s view

    • Ronald Wintrobe
    Pages 55-78

  7. Tax resistance, economy and state transformation in China and Europe

    • R. Bin Wong
    Pages 79-93

  8. The rationality of revolution

    • Leonard Dudley
    Pages 95-121

  9. Optimal law enforcement when victims are rational players

    • Nuno Garoupa
    Pages 123-134

  10. Property rights and the evolution of the state

    • Yoram Barzel
    Pages 135-161

  11. The political economy of organized crime: providing protection when the state does not

    • Stergios Skaperdas
    Pages 163-192

  12. Social decision rules are not immune to conflict

    • Joan Esteban, Debraj Ray
    Pages 193-201
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Economists and political scientists have recently begun to study formally how conftict and the possibility of conftict affects resource allocation and economic performance.! For example, an extensive empiricalliterature suggests that conftict and political instability adversely affects economic development and that higher 2 inequality causes poor economic performance by inducing increased conftict. In this paper I argue that a serious ftaw in this research has taken too individu­ 3 alistic a view of conftict. While the approach of methodological individualism is attractive, in reality individuals act not purely in isolation, but also as part of larger social groupings and networks. I therefore try to consider how these models of conftict may be extended to this type of situation and thus attempt to place individuals within a larger social setting to see how this alters our intuitions about conftict and its economic and political determinants and implications. But what groups are relevant? Individuals belong to many overlapping and cross cutting groups in society. While traditional Marxist analysis stressed dass groupings so that workers associated with workers and capitalists with capitalists, more recent literature (see Wright, 1985) has stressed the diversity of social groupings. Rather than associate along dass lines one might associate along gender, religious, or perhaps ethnic lines. Many strands of research have show how thinking of groups in this heterogeneous way can iIluminate both economic 4 and political behavior.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, USA

    Amihai Glazer

  • WZB, Berlin, Germany

    Kai A. Konrad

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