Citation

Barrie C, Clarke K, Ketchley N. Perspect. Polit. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

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(Copyright © 2022, Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

What are the determinants of ethnic violence? Existing research has forwarded a range of oftentimes competing explanations, from political opportunism and eco- nomic competition to state incapacity. We argue that this diversity of accounts is attributable, in part, to scholars' tendency to lump together distinct forms of ethnic violence, with different underlying determinants. We propose that scholars instead disaggregate ethnic violence, and put forward a typology based on the target of the attack (properties vs. individuals) and whether assailants use arms. We demon- strate the utility of this typology by applying it to an original dataset of ethnic attacks against Christians in Egypt from 2013 to 2018. Alongside a set of shared factors, we find that unarmed attacks against property (i.e., "burnings") are the product of political mobilization; unarmed attacks against individuals (i.e., "beatings") are related to socio-economic frictions; and armed attacks (i.e., "bombings") follow the strategic logic of terrorist violence.

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