TY - JOUR
T1 - Grievances and rebellion
T2 - Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality
AU - Siroky, David
AU - Warner, Carolyn M.
AU - Filip-Crawford, Gabrielle
AU - Berlin, Anna
AU - Neuberg, Steven L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers SES-0729516 and IBSS-1416900. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been incorporated into this discussion fully. This article first discusses these distinctions, and then assesses how they influence collective violence using new global evidence. Consistent with the theoretical discussion, the empirical results indicate that these concepts are not substitutes, and indeed are only weakly correlated, but rather tap into distinct aspects of grievance. The paper discusses the implications of these results, validates them in a series of robustness checks, and concludes with possible extensions along with future directions.
AB - Social science answers to the essential question of group conflict have focused on two main explanations—their motivating “grievances” and their mobilization “capacity” for collective action. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on grievances in the form of horizontal inequalities (between-group inequality), but the important conceptual and potential empirical differences between horizontal inequality and relative deprivation have not yet been incorporated into this discussion fully. This article first discusses these distinctions, and then assesses how they influence collective violence using new global evidence. Consistent with the theoretical discussion, the empirical results indicate that these concepts are not substitutes, and indeed are only weakly correlated, but rather tap into distinct aspects of grievance. The paper discusses the implications of these results, validates them in a series of robustness checks, and concludes with possible extensions along with future directions.
KW - Grievance
KW - horizontal inequality
KW - mobilization
KW - rebellion
KW - relative deprivation
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U2 - 10.1177/0738894220906372
DO - 10.1177/0738894220906372
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082314654
VL - 37
SP - 694
EP - 715
JO - Conflict Management and Peace Science
JF - Conflict Management and Peace Science
SN - 0738-8942
IS - 6
ER -