Power Sharing: Institutions, Behavior, and Peace. Bormann, N., Cederman, L., Gates, S., Graham, B. A. T., Hug, S., Strøm, K. W., & Wucherpfennig, J. American Journal of Political Science, 63(1):84–100, January, 2019.
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Grievances that derive from the unequal treatment of ethnic groups are a key motivation for civil war. Ethnic power sharing should therefore reduce the risk of internal conflict. Yet conflict researchers disagree on whether formal powersharing institutions effectively prevent large-scale violence. We can improve our understanding of the effect of power-sharing institutions by analyzing the mechanisms under which they operate. To this effect, we compare the direct effect of formal power-sharing institutions on peace with their indirect effect through power-sharing behavior. Combining data on inclusive and territorially dispersive institutions with information on power-sharing behavior, we empirically assess this relationship on a global scale. Our causal mediation analysis reveals that formal power-sharing institutions affect the probability of ethnic conflict onset mostly through power-sharing behavior that these institutions induce.
@article{bormann_power_2019,
	title = {Power {Sharing}: {Institutions}, {Behavior}, and {Peace}},
	volume = {63},
	issn = {0092-5853, 1540-5907},
	shorttitle = {Power {Sharing}},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12407},
	doi = {10.1111/ajps.12407},
	abstract = {Grievances that derive from the unequal treatment of ethnic groups are a key motivation for civil war. Ethnic power sharing should therefore reduce the risk of internal conflict. Yet conflict researchers disagree on whether formal powersharing institutions effectively prevent large-scale violence. We can improve our understanding of the effect of power-sharing institutions by analyzing the mechanisms under which they operate. To this effect, we compare the direct effect of formal power-sharing institutions on peace with their indirect effect through power-sharing behavior. Combining data on inclusive and territorially dispersive institutions with information on power-sharing behavior, we empirically assess this relationship on a global scale. Our causal mediation analysis reveals that formal power-sharing institutions affect the probability of ethnic conflict onset mostly through power-sharing behavior that these institutions induce.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2021-05-06},
	journal = {American Journal of Political Science},
	author = {Bormann, Nils‐Christian and Cederman, Lars‐Erik and Gates, Scott and Graham, Benjamin A. T. and Hug, Simon and Strøm, Kaare W. and Wucherpfennig, Julian},
	month = jan,
	year = {2019},
	pages = {84--100},
}

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