Accommodation or Resistance? Cultural Evolution after Conquest

• In Event: Institutional Development and Culture

Brief Overview

What explains the malleability or recalcitrance of national identities in the wake of foreign conquest? To address this question, we develop a novel formal model that illuminates when state-directed nationalization policies succeed or fail.

Authors

• Christopher Lee Carter, University of Virginia

• Daniel Willard Gingerich, University of Virginia-Main Campus