Contextual facilitation factors predict civil strife more than deprivation does

Evidence

In his early (now much modified) report (1968a, p. 1121), certain highly contextual factors presumed related to the possibility of violence (e.g., transportation networks, density of population, other geographic characteristics, and “external support of insurgents”) account for more variance in magnitude of civil strife than anything else (twice as much as persistent deprivation!). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4323

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethnic and religious fragmentation weakly predict civil war; feasibility of insurgency does — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809; Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809; Work failure, social rejection, and abuse predict resorting to political violence — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 160