“…Unlike for ethnic groups (Cederman, Wimmer, & Min, 2010), previous research cannot find a straightforward answer to these questions and is unable to establish a causal chain running from deprivation to conflict (e.g. Basedau, Fox, Pierskalla, Strüver, & Vüllers, 2017;Fox, Bader, & McClure, 2017). There are theoretical and methodological explanations for this failure.…”