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David D. Laitin
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 183
Citations - 19699
David D. Laitin is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 179 publications receiving 18582 citations. Previous affiliations of David D. Laitin include University of Chicago & University of California, San Diego.
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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s rather than a sudden change associated with a new, post-Cold War international system.
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data for the period 1945 to 1999 on the 161 countries that had a population of at least half a million in 1990 and found that civil war has been a far greater scourge than interstate war in this period, though it has been studied far less.
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Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a social matching game model is used to explain the norm of interethnic peace and how it occasionally breaks down, arguing that formal and informal institutions usually work to contain or "cauterize" disputes between individual members of different groups.
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A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change
Avner Greif,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concepts of quasi-parameters and self-reinforcement to explain why and how institutions change and how an institution persist in a changing environment and how processes that it unleashes lead to its own demise.