Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
This book argues that political and economic inequalities following group lines generate grievances that in turn can motivate civil war. The alleged irrelevance of grievances in previous research stemmed primarily from atheoretical measures, typically based on individual data. This book's analyses show that systematic political and economic inequalities at the group level exert a strong effect on the risk of civil war, and the authors present examples illustrating motivating grievances.