Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Gates, Scott"

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  • Horizontal inequality and armed conflict: a comprehensive literature review 
    Hillesund, Solveig; Baghat, Karim; Barrett, Gray; Dupuy, Kendra; Gates, Scott; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Strand, Håvard; Urdal, Henrik; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Investigation of whether, how, and why inequality influences the dynamics of violent conflict has a long intellectual history. Inequality between individuals and households (vertical inequality) has dominated the literature, ...
  • Inclusion, dispersion, and constraint: powersharing in the world's states, 1975-2010 
    Strøm, Kaare; Gates, Scott; Graham, Ben; Strand, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    Political powersharing arrangements serve three purposes: to give all relevant groups access to the most important political decisions; to partition the policy process, thereby granting groups autonomy in their own homeland ...
  • Membership matters: Coerced recruits and rebel allegiance 
    Gates, Scott (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    Unable to attract enough voluntary recruits, many rebel groups rely on force to fill their ranks. Given that the group used force to compel individuals to join, a coerced conscript would be presumed unlikely to be loyal ...
  • Patterns of Democracy over Space and Time 
    Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Gates, Scott; Knutsen, Carl Henrik; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Strand, Håvard (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Abstract Unidimensional measures of democracy fail to account for the complex and varied nature of political systems. This article disaggregates the concept of democracy and proposes a multidimensional conceptualization ...