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标题：On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict
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作者：Francesco Caselli ; Wilbur John Coleman II
期刊名称：CEP Discussion Paper
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
期号：jul
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance
摘要：We present a theory of ethnic conflict in which coalitions formed along ethnic lines compete for the economy’s resources. The role of ethnicity is to enforce coalition membership: in ethnically homogeneous societies members of the losing coalition can defect to the winners at low cost, and this rules out conflict as an equilibrium outcome. We derive a number of implications of the model relating social, political, and economic indicators such as the incidence of conflict, the distance among ethnic groups, group sizes, income inequality, and expropriable resources
关键词：ethnic distance; exploitation