relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2738/
title: Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
creator: Dincecco, Mark
creator: Fenske, James
creator: Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano
subject: DT Africa
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: JF Political institutions (General)
description: We show that the consequences of historical warfare for state development differ for  Sub-Saharan Africa. We identify the locations of more than 1,500 conflicts in Africa, Asia,  and Europe from 1400 to 1799. We find that historical warfare predicts common-interest  states defined by high fiscal capacity and low civil conflict across much of the OldWorld.  For Sub-Saharan Africa, historical warfare predicts special-interest states defined by high  fiscal capacity and high civil conflict. Our results offer new evidence about where and  when “war makes states.”
publisher: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
date: 2015-08
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2738/1/WP_2015_8.pdf
identifier:   Dincecco, Mark and Fenske, James and Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano  Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development.  EIC working paper series  #8/2015    IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca    ISSN 2279-6894.    (Submitted)