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Lancaster, Ross, Federalism and Civil Conflict: The Missing Link? Master of Arts
(Political Science), August 2012, 71 pp., 6 tables, references, 128 titles.
This thesis investigates federalism and civil conflict. Past work linking federalism and
civil conflict has investigated the factors that pacify or aggravate conflict, but most such studies
have examined the effect of decentralization on conflict onset, as opposed to the form federalism
takes (such as congruent vs incongruent forms, for example). I collect data on civil conflict, the
institutional characteristics of federalist states and fiscal decentralization. My theoretical
expectations are that federations who treat federal subjects differently than others, most
commonly in an ethnically based manner, are likely to experience greater levels of conflict
incidence and more severe conflict. I find support for these expectations, suggesting more
ethnically based federations are a detriment to peace preservation. I close with case studies that
outline three different paths federations have taken with regards to their federal subunits.
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Lancaster, Ross. Federalism and Civil Conflict: the Missing Link?, thesis, August 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149626/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .