Which Side Are You On? Partition and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919–1921

• In Event: In-Group, Out-Group Dynamics and Conflict Processes

Brief Overview

How do partitions effect levels of violence during conflicts? We use a unique dataset of manually coded archive data from 1921 to causally identify (using a difference-in-difference design) the effect that partition has on violence during conflict.

Authors

• Elissa Matz Berwick, McGill University

• Sarah K Dreier, University of New Mexico

• Danielle Bohonos, University of Toronto