| ID | 168430 |
| Title Proper | Local Public Goods Expenditure and Ethnic Conflict |
| Other Title Information | evidence from China |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Liu, Chuyu |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Few civil-conflict studies explore the role played by subnational-level governments, especially the impact of their providing public goods. In this paper, I argue that local governments can mitigate the risk of ethnic conflicts by increasing their provision of public goods. I situate this argument in the context of ongoing ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang, China. With a new data set of 105 ethnic conflicts in Xinjiang between 1997 and 2005, this study finds that counties with higher government spending on education were significantly less likely to experience conflicts. The results are robust to a wide range of robustness checks. |
| `In' analytical Note | Security Studies Vol. 28, No.4; Aug-Sep 2019: p.739-772 |
| Journal Source | Security Studies Vol: 28 No 4 |
| Key Words | Ethnic Conflict ; Local Public Goods Expenditure ; Evidence from China |