Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fearon, James D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national variation; Empirical patterns; Ethnic mobilization; Ethnic violence; Politicization; Politicized ethnicity; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925857344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548477.003.0047     Document Type: Chapter

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