@article{Dasgupta:127235,
      recid = {127235},
      author = {Dasgupta, Indraneel and Kanbur, Ravi},
      title = {BRIDGING COMMUNAL DIVIDES: SEPARATION, PATRONAGE,  INTEGRATION},
      address = {2003-07-03},
      number = {642-2016-44087},
      pages = {32},
      month = {Jul},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {We analyze conflicts between communities. A  community-specific public good, to which
members make  voluntary contributions, defines communities. Some, but not  all, members of
one community may contribute towards  another community’s public good. Such  ‘bridging’
contributions will not occur when communities  have relatively equal wealth endowments.
‘Separation’ of  communities in this sense provides incentives to  individuals to support
confiscation of the other  community’s wealth, thus generating communal conflicts.  Individuals’
incentives to support inter-community  conflicts can be moderated by the presence of a public
good  common to both communities. Such moderation however occurs  only when communities
are separated at the level of public  goods constitutive of a community’s self-identity. Thus  the
presence of meta-communal public goods and relative  wealth equality across communities are
both necessary to  mitigate communal conflict.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/127235},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.127235},
}