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Wigton-Jones, Evan

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Associate Professor, School of Business and Management
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PhD Economics, University of California Riverside, 2018
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    Droughts, Conflict, and the Importance of Democratic Legitimacy: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Europe
    (SSRN, 2022-02-15) Wigton-Jones, Evan
    This research shows that droughts are robustly associated with city-level unrest in Europe over the years 900 to 1800 CE. This relationship is non-linear, with disproportionately greater increases in the probability of a conflict among droughts in the upper tail of the severity distribution. Elected city governments are relatively immune to drought-induced conflict, while those based on representation by burghers or guilds are not. These results suggest that local governments are key to maintaining social stability during economic shocks, and are most successful when they have a greater degree of democratic legitimacy.