Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting
literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the …

This article traces the contours of a comparative, global, cross-disciplinary, and
multiparadigmatic field that construes ethnicity, race, and nationhood as a single integrated …

This paper considers how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes. We
incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior. In …

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities,
ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists …

In a striking empirical regularity, deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who
compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own …

This paper offers a critical analysis of 'groupism'and suggests alternative ways of
conceptualizing ethnicity without invoking the imagery of bounded groups. Alternative …

Primordialist and constructivist authors have debated the nature of ethnicity “as such” and
therefore failed to explain why its characteristics vary so dramatically across cases …

This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987--the
disintegration of the Soviet state--became the seemingly inevitable by 1991. It provides an …

The purpose of this article is to identify a set of interlinked social mechanisms that have
important, sometimes desirable, but at other times harmful effects on risk regulation. The …

" In modern nations, political disagreement is the source of both the gravest danger and the
greatest security," writes Cass Sunstein. All democracies face intense political conflict. But is …