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Implications of Ethnic Diversity.
- Abstract:
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Ethnically differentiated societies are often regarded as dysfunctional, with poor economic performance and a high risk of violent civil conflict. I argue that this is not well founded. I distinguish between "dominance", in which one group constitutes a majority, and "fractionalization", in which there are many small groups. In terms of overall economic performance, I show that both theoretically and empirically, fractionalization is normally unproblematic in democracies, although it can be d...
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing
- Journal:
- Economic Policy
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 32
- Pages:
- 127 - 166
- Publication date:
- 2001-01-01
- ISSN:
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0266-4658
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10605
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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