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Predicting violence within genocides: meso-level evidence from Rwanda

McDoom, Omar Shahabudin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Can we predict when and where violence will break out within cases of genocide? Given often weak political will to … contemplating intervention. I develop a theoretical model to help identify areas vulnerable to violence during genocide. I argue … strength of society’s cohesion below. Violence will be delayed in areas where political and military resistance to the center …

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The power of the interviewer: a qualitative perspective on African survey data collection

Randall, Sara; Coast, Ernestina; Compaore, Natacha; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

BACKGROUND African censuses and surveys remain dependent on interviewers for data collection. Data quality is assured through training and supervision. Many survey concepts are difficult to translate into African languages and some, such as “household”, may have multiple criteria which are...

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Big data from the bottom up

Couldry, Nick; Powell, Alison - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This short article argues that an adequate response to the implications for governance raised by ‘Big Data’ requires much more attention to agency and reflexivity than theories of ‘algorithmic power’ have so far allowed. It develops this through two contrasting examples: the sociological...

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The political economy of natural disaster damage

Neumayer, Eric; Plümper, Thomas; Barthel, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Economic damage from natural hazards can sometimes be prevented and always mitigated. However, private individuals tend to underinvest in such measures due to problems of collective action, information asymmetry and myopic behavior. Governments, which can in principle correct these market...

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Political economy of natural resource revenue sharing in Indonesia

Agustina, Cut Dian; Ahmad, Ehtisham; Nugroho, Dhanie; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

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The political-economy of tax reforms in Pakistan: the ongoing saga of the GST

Admad, Ehtisham - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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The political economy of inclusive rural growth

Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Abstract Commentators on the `East Asian Miracle' of inclusive growth have often pointed toward shared rural growth policies. But why were these policies not chosen elsewhere? This paper models voters who invest in either subsistence or a complex technology in which public goods complement...

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Young Canadians’ apprenticeship labour in user-generated content

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This article introduces a political-economic framework for analyzing young people’s production of user-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user-generated content, the author developed the...

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Policy experimentation, political competition, and heterogeneous beliefs

Millner, Antony; Ollivier, Hélène; Simon, Leo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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Political credit cycles: the case of the Euro zone

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Garicano, Luis; Santos, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We study the mechanisms through which the adoption of the Euro delayed, rather than advanced, economic reforms in the Euro zone periphery and led to the deterioration of important institutions in these countries. We show that the abandonment of the reform process and the institutional...

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