Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Østby, Gudrun"

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  • Ethno-political favouritism in maternal health care service delivery: Micro-level evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, 1981–2014. 
    Theisen, Ole Magnus; Strand, Håvard; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    It is commonly held that political leaders favour people of the same ethnic origin. We test this argument of ethno-political favouritism by studying variations in the usage of maternal health care services across groups ...
  • Horizontal Inequalities and Political Violence 
    Østby, Gudrun (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)
    While recent quantitative research concludes that economic inequality is unrelated to civil conflict, qualitative case studies suggest that what matters for political violence is so-called ‘horizontal inequalities’ (HIs), ...
  • Horizontal inequalities, political violence, and nonviolent conflict mobilization: A review of the literature 
    Hillesund, Solveig; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    The association between horizontal inequalities (HIs) and civil war is well established. Yet, studies of HIs and civil war rarely specify why HIs should lead to conflict that is violent, organized, and large-scale, such ...
  • Horizontal inequality and armed conflict: a comprehensive literature review 
    Hillesund, Solveig; Baghat, Karim; Barrett, Gray; Dupuy, Kendra; Gates, Scott; Nygård, Håvard Mokleiv; Rustad, Siri Camilla Aas; Strand, Håvard; Urdal, Henrik; Østby, Gudrun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Investigation of whether, how, and why inequality influences the dynamics of violent conflict has a long intellectual history. Inequality between individuals and households (vertical inequality) has dominated the literature, ...