Civil War and Social Cohesion: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Nepal
We study effects of wartime violence on social cohesion in the context of Nepal's 10-year civil war. We begin with the observation that violence increased levels of collective action like voting and community organization—a finding consistent with other recent studies of postconflict societies....
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| Volume: | 58 |
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| Main Author: |
Michael J. Gilligan
Benjamin J. Pasquale Cyrus Samii |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2014 |
| published in: | American journal of political science Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 604 - 619 |
| Data of publication: | 20140701 |
| ISSN: |
0092-5853 1540-5907 |
| EISSN: |
1540-5907 |
| Discipline: | Political Science |
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editor, and seminar participants at New York University, Stony Brook University, Yale University, University of California‐Los Angeles, and University of California‐San Diego. This research is approved under institutional review board protocols at Columbia University (IRB‐AAAD8673) and New York University (HS‐7168). Replication data and supporting materials are available from AJPS Dataverse http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/ajps . This research was funded by a grant from the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden. We thank Ashik KC, Shristi Khadka, Asish Subedi, and Anuj Tiwari for excellent field research assistance, Kristine Eck for providing the compiled INSEC violence data set, and New Era Nepal for their assistance in data collection. We received valuable comments from David Laitin, Leonid Peisakhin, three anonymous reviewers, the |
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