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Social cohesion
Journal Article
Aid and social cohesion

A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous cross- country macro studies have investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion...

Social cohesion Foreign aid Panel data
Journal Article
Receiving more, expecting less?: Social ties, clientelism and the poor’s expectations of future service provision

Part of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development

vote-buying Clientelism Social cohesion
Working Paper
Aid and social cohesion

A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous studies has investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion...

Social cohesion Foreign aid Panel data
Working Paper
Social ties, clientelism, and the poor’s expectations of future service provision: Receiving more, expecting less?

Are candidates who hand out clientelistic goods at election time less likely to provide services once they take office?...

vote-buying Clientelism Social cohesion
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Ethnic inequality, cultural distance, and social integration: evidence from a native-settler conflict in the Philippines

A key debate in studies of native-migrant relations relates to the barriers to integration created by ethno-cultural differences and socio-economic disadvantage...

Inequality Ethnicity Violent conflict
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Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

Horizontal inequality Legal empowerment Peacebuilding
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Inequality, ethnicity, and social cohesion

How do changes in socio-economic inequality between ethnic groups affect interethnic ties in a divided society?...

Inequality Ethnicity Violent conflict
Working Paper
Legal empowerment and horizontal inequalities after conflict

This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how...

Horizontal inequality Legal empowerment Peacebuilding
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