Modernization, Inequality, and Ethnic Civil Conflicts

dc.contributor.advisor	Leventoglu, Bahar
dc.contributor.author	Wang, Zhipeng
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-20T14:12:29Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-20T14:12:29Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.department	Political Science
dc.description.abstract	Recent studies have revealed that the inequality between different ethnic groups can better explain and predict the onset of ethnic civil conflicts than traditional inequality indicators do. Based on their findings, this article uses the modernist theory on nationalism to further illustrate the mechanism of the horizontal inequality on ethnic civil conflicts. Introducing the modernist nationalism’s dimension, this article finds that with the increase of the degree of modernization, the positive effect of political horizontal inequality on the possibility of ethnonationalist civil conflict onset increases, while horizontal inequality’s effect diminishes in the less modernized countries. This finding matches the expectation of the modernist theory on nationalism, providing a better understanding about ethnonationalist civil conflicts in the context of horizontal inequality.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23203
dc.subject	International relations
dc.subject	Ethnonationalist civil conflicts
dc.subject	horizontal inequality
dc.subject	modernization
dc.subject	Nationalism
dc.title	Modernization, Inequality, and Ethnic Civil Conflicts
dc.type	Master's thesis

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