American Political Science Review
- American Political Science Review / Volume / Issue 01 / February 2007, pp 187-193
- Copyright © 2007 by the American Political Science Association
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003055407070219 (About DOI), Published online: 05 February 2007
Ethnic Minority Rule and Civil War Onset
Partly hidden beneath the complexities of N* and an attack on the supposedly individualist presumptions of ethnic fractionalization measures, a simple and valuable question lies implicit in Cederman and Girardin's (2007) article (henceforth, CG). Are countries at greater risk of civil war when the state is controlled by an ethnic minority? Correspondence: c1 James D. Fearon is Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044 (jfearon@stanford.edu). c2 Kimuli Kasara is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 7th Floor IAB, 420 W. 118 Street, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 (kk2432@columbia.edu). c3 David D. Laitin is Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6044 (dlaitin@stanford.edu). |
