Dyad Relations and Social Conflict

Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations - ReadingSample

Social conflict

Numerous approaches in the social sciences either refuse to consider or minimize the importance of conflict in community, or else replace it with a Spencerian vision of the social struggle. Between these two extremes there is considerable space for us to consider conflict as a relationship; this is what differentiates it from modes of behaviour involving war and rupture. Sociology suggests diff...

Chair of International Relations and Conflict Management

A central assumption of deliberative theory is that political preferences are endogenous to decision-making processes in which they are transformed by communicative interaction. We identify discursiveness and coordinativeness of interaction as central determinants of preference change and develop a typology of political modes of interaction that affect the likelihood of preference change differ...

Social Composition, Social Conflict, and Economic Development

This paper investigates how people subdivided in social groups behave in an economy without property rights. Facing a linear production technology groups follow Markovian strategies for consumption and investment. Additionally, they may spend effort in an appropriation contest. For a symmetric society I show that conflict prevents investment and growth. In a society at peace economic growth may...

Envy in the process of development: Implications for social relations and conflict

Issues of conflict and peace have attracted much attention from economists. Among other factors, control over natural resources, inequality, political regime, and ethno-linguistic fragmentation have been examined as possible determinants of violent conflict, including civil wars. Culture—broadly defined as values, preferences, norms, and beliefs prevalent in a society—has recently come to the f...