... that persecution is more intense the larger the size of the ruler's coalition. We discuss the predictions of the model using several episodes of religious violence drawn from history. Religious violence toleration selectorate theory state capacity conflict Religiously motivated violence remains...

... 2021 J. Ricart-Huguet Licensed re-use rights only Colonialism public investments historical persistence conflict development sub-Saharan Africa Finally, I use a variety of existing datasets to test the two main hypotheses that might explain differential persistence. For political...

... to study sea power. The model builds on the literature that uses contest success functions to study conflict (Garfinkel and Skaperdas, 2007 ; Hirshleifer, 2001 ; Skaperdas, 1996). In order to focus on cases that are relevant for understanding the dynamics of sea power historically, we employ...