Territorial Expansion, Shared Ethnicity, and Institutional Incentives: A Theory, Model, and Empirical Assessment

• In Event: Territory and the Movement of People Across Conflict Theaters

Brief Overview

This paper advances a new theory with rationalist micro-foundations that accounts for the incentives of both elites and citizens to support irredentism.

Authors

• Christopher Hale, The University of Alabama

• David Siroky, Arizona State University