Peace and war with endogenous state capacity

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 446-468

  McBride, Michael ^a   Milante, Gary ^b   Skaperdas, Stergios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

civil war; conflict; governance; institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957894482     PISSN: 00220027     EISSN: 15528766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022002711400862     Document Type: Article

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