Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
Thiemo Fetzer and
Stephan Kyburz
Additional contact information
Stephan Kyburz: Center for Regional Economic Development, University of Bern, CH
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, vol. 106, issue 1, 133-150
Abstract:
Can revenue sharing of resource rents be a source of distributive conflict? Can cohesive institutions avoid such conflicts? We exploit exogenous variation in local government revenues and new data on local democratic institutions in Nigeria to study these questions. We find a strong link between rents and conflict. Conflicts are highly organized and concentrated in districts and time periods with unelected local governments. Once local governments are elected these relationships are much weaker. We argue that elections produce more cohesive institutions that help limit distributional conflict between groups. Throughout, we confirm these findings using individual level survey data.
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01156
Access to PDF is restricted to subscribers.
Related works:
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2019) 
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2018) 
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2018) 
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2018) 
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2018) 
Working Paper: Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence (2018) 
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tpr:restat:v:106:y:2024:i:1:p:133-150
Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://mitpressjour ... rnal/?issn=0034-6535
Access Statistics for this article
The Review of Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Pierre Azoulay, Olivier Coibion, Will Dobbie, Raymond Fisman, Benjamin R. Handel, Brian A. Jacob, Kareen Rozen, Xiaoxia Shi, Tavneet Suri and Yi Xu
More articles in The Review of Economics and Statistics from MIT Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by The MIT Press ().