Conflict Hypothesis Research Articles

Cumulation and the Domestic-Foreign Conflict Hypothesis

I N THE PRECEDING ARTICLE, Jack Vincent reports some research that is explicitly intended to contribute to the growing body of crossnational investigations of the domestic-foreign conflict hypothesis. In so doing, he uses our study' as something of a springboard. We applaud Professor Vincent's intentions. But we have some reservations about the design of his study and the conclusions reached. Thus, we are not fully persuaded by his effort to contribute to cumulative empirical understanding of the guiding research question. Vincent's argument appears to proceed along the following lines. First, he believes that the design of his study is sufficiently similar to ours that the empirical results of the two papers can meaningfully be compared. Second, his results are said to differ significantly from ours. Third, he is convinced that his measurement procedures for the independent and dependent conflict variables are the more valid. He concludes that therefore his empirical findings are closer to reality. We question each of these statements. In the following pages, these misgivings are amplified in hopes of establishing a

Anxiety and aggression of high and low assertive persons following conflict

This experiment examined changes in anxiety and differences in aggression for high and low assertive women when different degrees of conflict were encountered. As predicted, low assertive women were intially more uneasy or anxious than high assertive women when they were placed in a conflictual situation. When the level of actual conflict was low, the level of anxiety of low assertive women decreased. However, when the actual level of conflict was high the anxiety level of low assertive women remained unchanged. These results were taken as support for the fear of conflict hypothesis which predicted that the reduction in anxiety for low assertive persons is contingent upon whether or not the anticipated conflict is actually encountered. The results also indicated that high assertive women were not significantly more aggressive than low assertive women. This finding provided support for Galassi's position that assertiveness and aggression are distinct concepts.

Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis

Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis

Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis

Conflict theorists assume that force or its threat is the fundamental element that holds unequal societies together. Because conflict theorists also hold that the state's monopoly of violence is controlled by those who benefit from inequality, it follows that the control agents of the state should be more likely to use extreme force when economic inequality is most pronounced. This hypothesis was tested with data on the number of killings committed by policemen in the American states. After controlling for six additional explanations, we found that the police were most likely to use deadly force in the most unequal states. The amount of violent crimes and riots and the percentage change in population also predicted these lethal events. But the major implication of our findings is that a hypothesis derived from confict theory does predict the amount of police-caused homicides.

Conflict at Home and Abroad: An Empirical Extension

Previous articleNext article No AccessResearch NotesConflict at Home and Abroad: An Empirical ExtensionCharles W. Kegley, Jr., Neil R. Richardson, and Günter RichterCharles W. Kegley, Jr. Search for more articles by this author , Neil R. Richardson Search for more articles by this author , and Günter Richter Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 40, Number 3Aug., 1978 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2129863 Views: 7Total views on this site Citations: 18Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1978 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Ivan Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens The paradox of power revisited: internal and external conflict, Economic Theory 68, no.22 (May 2018): 421–460.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-018-1130-zThomas C. Walker, Jeffrey S. Morton Re-Assessing the "Power of Power Politics" Thesis: Is Realism Still Dominant?1, International Studies Review 7, no.22 (Jun 2005): 341–356.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2005.00504.xGRAEME A. M. DAVIES Domestic Strife and the Initiation of International Conflicts, Journal of Conflict Resolution 46, no.55 (Jul 2016): 672–692.https://doi.org/10.1177/002200202236169Yi Feng Measuring international conflict: Developing cross‐country time‐series data, International Interactions 26, no.33 (Jan 2000): 287–319.https://doi.org/10.1080/03050620008434969 T. Clifton Morgan , and Christopher J. Anderson Domestic Support and Diversionary External Conflict in Great Britain, 1950- 1992, The Journal of Politics 61, no.33 (Oct 2015): 799–814.https://doi.org/10.2307/2647829Berger Heldt Domestic Politics, Absolute Deprivation, and the Use of Armed Force in Interstate Territorial Disputes, 1950-1990, Journal of Conflict Resolution 43, no.44 (Aug 1999): 451–478.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002799043004003Gary Goertz, Patrick M. Regan Conflict management in enduring rivalries, International Interactions 22, no.44 (Apr 1997): 321–340.https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629708434896Andrew J. Enterline Fledgling regimes: Is the case of inter‐war Germany generalizable?, International Interactions 22, no.33 (Jan 1997): 245–277.https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629708434891Diana Richards, T. Clifton Morgan, Rick K. Wilson, Valerie L. Schwebach, Garry D. Young Good Times, Bad Times, and the Diversionary Use of Force, Journal of Conflict Resolution 37, no.33 (Jul 2016): 504–535.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002793037003005J. S. Goldstein A Conflict-Cooperation Scale for WEIS Events Data, Journal of Conflict Resolution 36, no.22 (Jun 1992): 369–385.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002792036002007T. Clifton Morgan, Kenneth N. Bickers Domestic Discontent and the External Use of Force, Journal of Conflict Resolution 36, no.11 (Jul 2016): 25–52.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002792036001002Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, David Lalman Domestic Opposition and Foreign War, American Political Science Review 84, no.33 (Aug 2014): 747–765.https://doi.org/10.2307/1962765Patrick James Conflict and Cohesion: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research, Cooperation and Conflict 22, no.11 (Mar 1987): 21–33.https://doi.org/10.1177/001083678702200102Bruce Russett Economic Change as a Cause of International Conflict, (Jan 1987): 185–205.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18898-7_9Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl Measuring Military Allocations, Journal of Conflict Resolution 30, no.33 (Sep 1986): 553–581.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002786030003009Joe D. Hagan Domestic political conflict, issue areas, and some dimensions of foreign policy behavior other than conflict∗, International Interactions 12, no.44 (Jul 1986): 291–313.https://doi.org/10.1080/03050628608434661 Jack E. Vincent Internal and External Conflict: Some Previous Operational Problems and Some New Findings, The Journal of Politics 43, no.11 (Oct 2015): 128–142.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130241 Neil R. Richardson , and Charles W. Kegley, Jr. Cumulation and the Domestic-Foreign Conflict Hypothesis, The Journal of Politics 43, no.11 (Oct 2015): 143–151.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130242

Actual and perceived sex and generational differences in interpersonal style: structural and quantitative issues.

This study investigated the validity of using the Interpersonal Checklist in self-ratings by older individuals and under across generation instructional sets by college students. Effects of sex of target and sex of rater were also investigated. Qualitative evaluation of correlation matrices indicated construct validity for the instrument for self-report instructions among the aged but that the matrices obtained under across generation instructions differed from the expected model. The implication for the heteroperception methodology is that dimensional or trait comparisons should be interpreted with caution. The quantitative results indicated significant generational differences and significant misperceptions of older adults by students. These findings suggest a hypothesis of interpersonal conflict between the generations with interpersonal dominance as a possible central issue.

The association between domestic and international conflict hypothesis revisited

The author investigates the hypothesized link between a nation's domestic and international conflict levels utilizing events data and the operationalized concept of the nation's Normal Relations Ranges. The case of Syrian behavior between 1948 and 1973 is examined with particular emphasis on her dyadic foreign relations with nations in the Middle East region. A link between the two behaviors is shown to occur under particular circumstances.

Texcoco Region Archaeology and the Codex Xolotl

AbstractThe use of a hypothesis of conflict between Tula and Cholula by Parsons (1970) to account for settlement patterns and ceramics of the Toltec periods in the Texcoco region has resulted in the introduction of inconsistencies in the settlement interpretations of the preconquest Texcoco sequence. The Tula-Cholula Conflict Hypothesis is based on inadequate data and not supported. However, it is possible to interpret the settlement and ceramic changes of the Texcoco sequence using ecological and cultural factors suggested by Parsons for periods earlier than the Early Toltec. The correlations suggested by Parsons (1970) between the Codex Xolotl and the Early Toltec period rested in part on the use of the Tula-Cholula Conflict Hypothesis. With the elimination of this hypothesis, it is possible to correlate the 2 basic culture patterns of the Codex, as defined by Parsons, with terminal Late Toltec and Early Aztec. These correlations support Dibble"s original thirteenth century date for the early events depicted in the Codex Xolotl.

OPERATIONAL THOUGHT INDUCEMENT

Aspects of the effect of short-term training procedures upon the acquisition of the concept of conservation were investigated. 4 hypotheses were examined, yielding the following results: (a) screening misleading cues did not induce conservation; (b) Bruner's modes of representation conflict hypothesis was not substantiated; (c) transitional phase Ss were more likely to conserve and change progressively; and (d) using the present procedures, it was not possible to assess definitively whether only partial progress could be induced.

LAS CRISIS DE GOBERNABILIDAD DE BOLIVIA (2000-2005), SU RELACIÓN CON LA DEBILIDAD DEL ESTADO Y LA SEGURIDAD REGIONAL

Durante la última década ha quedado de manifiesto cómo la seguridad de los Estados depende en gran parte de la capacidad que estos tengan de resolver y contener sus problemas internos. Es por eso que, más allá de los años de democracia que la región muestra con orgullo y de la desactivación de casi todas las hipótesis de conflicto interestatales, en Latinoamérica se hace necesario prestar atención en cómo la debilidad de los Estados posibilita el avance de las amenazas no convencionales, particularmente del crimen organizado en sus distintas variaciones (especialmente narcotráfico y contrabando).En este sentido, las características de los Estados de la región permiten en gran medida el asentamiento y la reproducción de organizaciones criminales de carácter transnacional. La propia debilidad del Estado, así como el alcance de la cuestión indígena y de la cultura política, particularmente en la Región Andina (compuesta por Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia) ponen de manifiesto las carencias del modelo de Estado existente y abren la puerta al ascenso de nuevos actores. En este contexto, el presente trabajo procura mostrar cómo, en el caso de Bolivia (tomado como caso testigo), las crisis de gobernabilidad de los años 2003 y 2005 profundizaron la inseguridad regional generada desde ese territorio.

Cyclic variation in stuttering: comment on Taylor and Taylor's "test of predictions from the conflict hypothesis of stuttering".

Cyclic variation in stuttering: comment on Taylor and Taylor's "test of predictions from the conflict hypothesis of stuttering".

Test of predictions from the conflict hypothesis of stuttering.

Test of predictions from the conflict hypothesis of stuttering.

Endocrine changes due to auditory stress.

For more than thirty years investigators in both animal behaviour and experimental psychiatry have sought to develop experimental model situations in which to produce abnormal behaviour in animals. These investigations have in large part been concerned with the design of specific circumstances which could reliably produce standard patterns of abnormal behaviour. Despite the expansiveness of the behavioural findings and the excellence of these investigations as situational explorations into the development of abnormal behaviour, there has been a great lag in the study of the physiologic changes which accompany the disturbed behaviour state. The present investigation is an attempt to repair this investigatory gap and to study the alterations in endocrinologic functions which accompany the subjection of laboratory animals to a standard type situation in which abnormal behaviour has been studied. It is hoped that this will make it possible to better understand some of the physiologic mechanisms which may underlie the disturbed behavioural state. The specific situation selected for study is the auditory stress design that has been utilized by Morgan & Morgan (1939), Finger (1942) and others for the production of seizure patterns in rats. This procedure has been selected from among numerous alternative methods that have been utilized in the production of abnormal behaviour because of its relative simplicity of application and the high level of reliability of its effect. We recognize that there is considerable debate as to whether it is the auditory stimulus itself that is producing the abnormal behaviour or whether as Maier (1939) has maintained, the auditory stimulus represents but one part of a conflict situation that is in its totality the basis for the development of the abnormal behaviour pattern. The conflict hypothesis is an attractive one and since Pavlov (1927), it has been the dominant paradigm that has been utilized in the explanation of the development of abnormal behaviour patterns. The present level of evidence is as yet insufficient to determine whether the auditory stimulation in and of itself is the effective agent in the production of the abnormal behaviour or whether it is only one important portion of a conflict complex. However, the present study does not depend for its validity upon either of these interpretations as to the production of the abnormal effect. Rather, it views the auditory stimulus as a generalized stress imposed upon the experimental animal, which has as one of its consequences under given conditions the production of a standardized pattern of abnormal response. The prime concern of the present investigation is with the production or rather with the application of a standardized stimulus situation that is a reliable producer of disturbed behaviour. The auditory stimulus is such a situation and can therefore be utilized as a standard stress.