The Long-Run Consequences of The Opium Concessions for Out-Group Animosity on Java

IF 4.5 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS World Politics Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI:10.1017/S0043887122000041
Nicholas Kuipers
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Abstract This article examines the consequences of the opium concession system in the Dutch East Indies—a nineteenth-century institution through which the Dutch would auction the monopolistic right to sell opium in a given locality. The winners of these auctions were invariably ethnic Chinese. The poverty of Java's indigenous population combined with opium's addictive properties meant that many individuals fell into destitution. The author argues that this institution put in motion a self-reinforcing arrangement that enriched one group and embittered the other with consequences that persist to the present day. Consistent with this theory, the author finds that individuals living today in villages where the opium concession system once operated report higher levels of out-group intolerance compared to individuals in nearby unexposed counterfactual villages. These findings improve the understanding of the historical conditions that structure antagonisms between competing groups.
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鸦片租界对爪哇岛群情激愤的长期后果
摘要本文考察了荷属东印度群岛鸦片特许经营制度的后果。这是一个19世纪的制度,荷兰人通过它拍卖在特定地区销售鸦片的垄断权。这些拍卖的获胜者都是华裔。爪哇土著人口的贫困加上鸦片的成瘾特性,意味着许多人陷入贫困。作者认为,这一制度启动了一种自我强化的安排,使一个群体富裕起来,使另一个群体痛苦不堪,其后果一直持续到今天。与这一理论一致,作者发现,与附近未暴露的反事实村庄的个人相比,今天生活在鸦片特许经营制度曾经运作的村庄的个人报告的群体外不容忍程度更高。这些发现提高了对构成竞争群体之间对抗的历史条件的理解。
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期刊介绍: World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published in both print and online versions. Open to contributions by scholars, World Politics invites submission of research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, review articles, and research notes bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics. The journal does not publish articles on current affairs, policy pieces, or narratives of a journalistic nature. Articles submitted for consideration are unsolicited, except for review articles, which are usually commissioned. Published for the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs
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