Strategic Mass Killings

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Esteban, Joan; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic
• 署名单位: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Bocconi University; University of Lausanne
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-3808
• DOI: 10.1086/682584
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1087-1132
• 关键词: ONE-SIDED VIOLENCE; civil-war; GENOCIDE; POWER; geography; DEMOCRACY; severity; CONFLICT; slavery; Murder

摘要

We provide a model of conflict and mass killing decisions to identify the key variables and situations that make mass killings more likely to occur. We predict that mass killings are most likely in countries with large amounts of natural resource rents, polarization, institutional constraints regarding rent sharing, and low productivity of labor. The role of resources such as oil, gas, and diamonds and other key determinants of mass killings is confirmed by our empirical results based on country-level as well as ethnic group level analysis.