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Replication data for: How governments shape the risk of civil violence: India’s federal reorganization, 1950–56

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Title Replication data for: How governments shape the risk of civil violence: India’s federal reorganization, 1950–56
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5CVUVU
 
Creator Bethany Lacina
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Governments are absent from empirical studies of civil violence, except as static sources of grievance. The influence that government policy accommodations and threats of repression have on internal violence is difficult to verify without a means to identify potential militancy that did not happen. I use a within-country research design to address this problem. During India’s reorganization as a linguistic federation, every language group could have sought a state. I show that representation in the ruling party conditioned the likelihood of a violent statehood movement. Pro-statehood groups that were politically advantaged over the interests opposed to them were peacefully accommodated. Statehood movements similar in political importance to their opponents used violence. Very politically-disadvantaged groups refrained from mobilization, anticipating repression. These results call into question the search for a monotonic relationship between grievances and violence and the omission of domestic politics from prominent theories of civil conflict.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Civil conflict
Ethnic violence
Language conflict
Federalism
Geographic borders
 
Contributor Bethany Lacina
 
Type PDF of supporting information; STATA .dta and .do files