Can power-sharing foster peace? Evidence from Northern Ireland*
研究认为权力分享能减少少数群体用暴力替代投票的动机，利用北爱尔兰1973-2001年地方议会数据，发现权力分享显著降低了冲突。
Abstract In the absence of power-sharing, minority groups in opposition have powerful incentives to substitute the ballot with the bullet. In contrast, when power is shared among all major groups in society, the relative gains of sticking to electoral politics are larger for minority groups. After making the theoretical argument, we provide in the current paper an empirical analysis of the impact of power-sharing at the local level, making use of fine-grained data from Northern Ireland’s 26 local district councils over the 1973–2001 period. We find that power-sharing has a sizable and robust conflict-reducing impact.