Democracy, globalization and ethnic violence

Dirk Bezemer and Richard Jong-A-Pin ()

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, vol. 41, issue 1, 108-125

Abstract: Do democratization and globalization processes combine to increase the incidence of violence in developing and emerging economies? The present paper examines this hypothesis by a study of internal violence in Sub-Sahara Africa with its recent democratization wave, the globalization process and the presence of advantaged ethnic minorities. Specifically, we examine if democratization and globalization lead to ethnic violence in the presence of ‘market-dominant’ minorities. We explore the theoretical underpinning of this scenario and empirically assess its implications employing panel fixed effects regressions over the period 1984–2003. We find support in a Sub-Saharan African sample but no evidence for a worldwide effect.

Keywords: Africa; Globalization; Democracy; Ethnic violence; Market-dominant minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2012.06.003

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