The Calculus of Civil Conflict
Ted Robert Gurr
Quantitative, comparative studies of violent conflict within societies constitute a growing subfield political science. Some common assumptions these are the premises that events have similar properties and causes across all types contemporary nations, susceptible to reliable valid measurement. Convergence is apparent in some results: conflict‐intensifies periods rapid socioeconomic change; transition “modernity” helps lessen revolutionary activity but not turmoil; increased coerciveness by regimes tends under specifiable circumstances exacerbate civil conflict; there little relationship between incidence domestic foreign as cause, effect, or alternatives. Prospects problems for such briefly evaluated.
Journal of Social Issues