POL_S 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Collective Action
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Non-lootable: oil, natural-gas, deep or complex minerals. The basics: both rational choice explanations, greed = economics, grievance = political science. Argues civil conflicts are result of economic greed: developed by economists working for organizations like the. Argues that conflict happens if the economic incentive for rebellion is sufficiently large relative to its costs: paul collier and anke hoeffier. Conflict reflects elite competition over resource rents. Presence of valuable resources creates incentive to capture regime. Presence of valuable resources creates incentive to capture territory. Argues civil conflicts are the result of political disputes: developed by political scientists (1970s) and then reemerged as a response to greed arguments. Argues that conflicts happen when political dispute for rebellion is sufficiently large to its cost. Increases willingness (repression, inequality: costs are being potentially physically hurt or killed but if you"re already being repressed, that is already happening to you. The source of conflict is relative deprivation.
