Crosscutting cleavages and ethno-communal violence: Evidence from Indonesia in the post-Suharto era

Arbeitspapier

Recent literature has shown that crosscutting social cleavages reduce the likelihood of civil war. This article argues that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that crosscutting social cleavages should often have the opposite effect, increasing both the frequency and scale of riots. We test this argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our findings suggest that high ethno-income crosscuttingness, when combined with a high degree of urban anonymity and close living quarters, is a potent setting for inter-group communal violence. We conclude with a discussion of how context matters in understanding the effect of macrostructural variables such as crosscuttingness on violence.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-173-4
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/129

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: crosscutting cleavages ; ethnicity ; riots ; violence ; Indonesia ; Muslim ; Christian

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gubler, Joshua R. ; Selway, Joel Sawat ; Varshney, Ashutosh
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/173-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161512
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ