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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950707
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Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model
Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951006
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Why Does Democracy Need Education?
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084522
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714870
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Can Public Discussion Enhance Program Ownership?
Drazen, Allan; Isard, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
We use the concepts of deliberative democracy from political science and cheap talk from economics to develop a better understanding of how public discussion can contribute to building and demonstrating ownership of IMF programs and hence to program success. We argue that ownership is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720843
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Foreign Influence and Welfare
Antras, Pol; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal tariffs. We develop a two-country voting model of electoral competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778622
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Endogenous Property Rights
Sonin, Konstantin; Diermeier, Daniel; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
It is often argued that additional checks and balances provide economic agents with better protection from expropriation of their wealth or productive capital. We demonstrate that in a dynamic political economy model this intuition may be flawed. Surprisingly, increasing the number of veto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821832
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683274
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron; Sonin, Konstantin; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950976
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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
guimaraes, bernardo; Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951385