Rising Ethno-Political Inequality and the Risk of Conflict — APSA Annual Conference 2024
Presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference 2024 on dominant nationalism and civil war.
September 1, 2024
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At the 120th APSA Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, September 5–8, 2024), I co-presented this paper with Lars-Erik Cederman examining how dominant nationalist movements — ideologies seeking ethnic political supremacy — drive civil war through exclusion, repression, and reactive separatist mobilization. Using new actor-centered data on governing nationalist movements, we showed that rising ethno-political inequality under nationalist rule systematically elevates the risk of civil conflict.