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Fetzer, Thiemo and Kyburz, Stephan (2021) Cohesive Institutions and political violence. Review of Economics and Statistics . doi:10.1162/rest_a_01156 ISSN 0034-6535. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01156
Abstract
Can revenue sharing of resource rents be a source of distributive conflict? Can co- hesive institutions avoid such conflicts? We exploit exogenous variation in local gov- ernment revenues and new data on local democratic institutions in Nigeria to study these questions. We find a strong link between rents and conflict. Conflicts are highly organized and concentrated in districts and time-periods with unelected local govern- ments. Once local governments are elected these relationships are much weaker. We argue that elections produce more cohesive institutions that help limit distributional conflict between groups. Throughout, we confirm these findings using individual level survey data.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.) J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Local government , Local government -- Nigeria, Local finance -- Nigeria, Local revenue -- Nigeria, Natural resources -- Nigeria, Nigeria -- Politics and government | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Review of Economics and Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | MIT Press | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0034-6535 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1162/rest_a_01156 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | © 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the Authors' final version, accepted for publication in Review of Economics and Statistics. | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 October 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 October 2021 | ||||||||||||
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