Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War Revisited∗
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∗This work was supported by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at the University of Washington with funds from the University Initiatives Funds. In addition, Quinn acknowledges research support under NSF Grant SES 01-36676. †Department of Political Science and CSSS, University of Washington, [email protected] ‡Department of Sociology, University of Washington, [email protected] §Department of Political Science, University of Washington, [email protected]
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