Prologue: Why This Book?

Atin Basuchoudhary, James Bang, John David () and Tinni Sen ()
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John David: Virginia Military Institute
Tinni Sen: Virginia Military Institute

Chapter Chapter 1 in Identifying the Complex Causes of Civil War, 2021, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter lays out how this book adds to the methodological literature investigating empirical causality. At the same time, it highlights why understanding the complex causes of civil conflict is a worthy endeavor.

Keywords: Civil war; Causality; Empirically informed covariate selection; Partial dependence plots; Theory agnostic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81993-4_1

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