TY  - JOUR
TI  - Cross-cuttingness, cleavage structures and civil war onset
AU  - Selway, Joel Sawat
PY  - 2011
LA  - eng
KW  - Bürgerkrieg
KW  - Friedensforschung
KW  - Konfliktforschung
KW  - Ursache
KW  - Konflikt
KW  - Minderheitenfrage
KW  - Religiöser Konflikt
KW  - Eskalation
KW  - Polarisierung
KW  - Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
KW  - Konfliktursachen/Konfliktanlass
KW  - Ethnischer Konflikt
KW  - Sozialstruktur
KW  - Konflikteskalation
KW  - Empirische Analyse
KW  - Identitätskonflikt
AB  - This article seeks to further our understanding of how social structure affects the onset of civil war. Existing studies to date have been inconclusive, focusing only on single-cleavage characteristics of social structure, such as ethnic or religious fractionalization. This study argues that models that do not take into account the relationship between cleavages (or cleavage structure) are biased and thusreach faulty conclusions. With the focus on the cleavages of ethnicity and religion, the effects of two characteristics of cleavage structure on civil war onset (cross-cuttingness and cross-fragmentation) are defined and tested. A new index of ethno-religious cross-cuttingness (ERC), derived from national public opinion surveys, reveals that ERC is a significant determinant of civil war onset wheninteracted with ethnic fractionalization. (British Journal of Political Science/ FUB 2010)
T2  - British journal of political science
VL  - 41
IS  - 1
SN  - 0007-1234
SN  - 1469-2112
SP  - 111-138
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-1639712704
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -