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Measures Of Ethnicity: Competing Concepts In Search Of Clarity, Daniel R. Jones
Measures Of Ethnicity: Competing Concepts In Search Of Clarity, Daniel R. Jones
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Why have many researchers historically relied on combined measures and explanations for the scholarship on ethnic polarization and ethnic fractionalization? In this article, I argue for the adoption of a new research mechanism that differentiates between both variables in order to test them independently vis à vis their relationships to civil war severity. The presence of a more ethnically polarized state seems to make it more difficult for the opposition groups to coordinate and to mount an effective attack/opposition against the government, thus limiting overall casualties. This also increases the difficultly for the government forces to identify the group(s) that …