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Secessionist conflict as diversion from inequality: The missing link between grievance and repression

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  • Valery Dzutsati

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Why do some secessionist claims turn violent and others stay peaceful? This study elucidates the role of inequality and diversionary tactics of states in secessionist violence. Horizontal inequality increases the grievances of minorities and fuels rebellion. States with high vertical inequality prefer to suppress peripheries instead of increasing redistribution and alleviating their material grievances. States shun redistributing toward peripheral regions because sharing with one group prompts demands for redistribution among other groups, including the dominant group. Fearing resource reallocation at the national scale and potential loss of their elevated social status, the elites opt for violent solutions for secessionist crises. Using a new dataset on self-determination movements I test these conjectures and find strong support for them.

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  • Valery Dzutsati, 2022. "Secessionist conflict as diversion from inequality: The missing link between grievance and repression," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 39(6), pages 706-730, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:compsc:v:39:y:2022:i:6:p:706-730
    DOI: 10.1177/07388942211055380
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