Territorial arrangements and ethnic conflict management: The paradox that isn’t
Journal: World Development
Year: 2024

• The use of territorial self-governance seems to decrease the risk of ethnic civil war in some cases and to increase it in others. • We ask whether empirical indicators influence statistical results on the link between self-governance and ethnic civil war. • We review how ten datasets capture elements of self-rule, shared rule and the legal codification of self-governance. • Binary time-series-cross-section analyses reveal that different indicators yield different results. • We conclude that th