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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …

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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed by both neighbors and non-neighbors. We show that, unlike in the case...

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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...

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Contractual Democracy

Gersbach, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Although they would yield social benefits, some political projects may not be implemented in democracies. Prominent examples are the reform of European labour markets, the reduction of government debt or the reduction of greenhouse gases. We suggest introducing political contracts to make...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R; Riezman, Raymond - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desired over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose and apply a simple empirical strategy based on survey data to address that longstanding issue. Differently from previous evaluations of the median-voter theory, ours does not assume that voters are guided by...

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Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia

Mazzuca, Sebastián L; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

civil war and conflict, a force intensified by the brutal conflict of the War of a Thousand days between 1899 and 1902. The … the parties in the population, thus encouraging conflict. The strategic advantage of PR was that it avoided such under … origins of electoral systems and the nature of political conflict and its resolution. …

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The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War

Qian, Nancy; Yanagizawa-Drott, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S....

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Sustainability of High Public Debt: What the Historical Record Shows

Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

conflict. Whichever strategy towards reducing the debt burden was adopted, there seem to be no visible effects on long …

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An Exercise in Futility: East German Economic Growth and Decline, 1945-89

Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper assembles and reviews data on growth performance for East Germany. Conclusions are only tentative, as data reliability is still poor. Examining factor growth and total factor productivity performance, the paper arrives at three main conclusions. First, large-scale dismantling of...

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