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Dynamics of Conflict

By Ronald A. Francisco (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2009
ISBN
0387752412, 9780387752419, 9780387752426
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-75242-6
Open Library ID
OL23553892M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
484 kB (496119 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
90\93
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
EconomicsGame TheorySocial and Behav. Sciences; Game Theory/Mathematic

Description

The mechanisms of protest and revolution have been the subject of theoretical research for over a century, yet the lack of data has hindered the empirical validation of conflicting theories. In this book, the author presents a unique new set of sub-daily data from over thirty countries and seven civil wars and uses them to test two models of conflict, the predator-prey model and the competing species model. The dynamic nature of the data modeling and the novelty of the dataset make this work a unique contribution to the field of conflict research. Dynamics of Conflict will help to re-evaluate existing theories and charts a new course towards the formal and statistical modeling of conflict.

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