Property Insecurity and Conflict

Lawson-Remer Terra ()
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Journal of Globalization and Development, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 131-160

Abstract: Insecure property rights for marginalized groups foster anti-government grievances – motivating dispossessed groups to rebel, and increasing the likelihood of armed conflict and civil war. Cross-country research often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, but this standard one-dimensional conception of property rights ignores significant variations in the risk of expropriation faced by different groups within the same country. Using a new indicator that measures the property insecurity of marginalized minority groups, this article demonstrates that the severity of property insecurity for the worst-off groups in a country is positively associated with the likelihood of armed conflict across a range of specifications.

Keywords: civil war; conflict; marginalized groups; property insecurity; property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1515/jgd-2012-0013

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