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We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
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This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …
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For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country...
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polarization of the electorate into changes in the distribution of voter ideal positions and consequences of elite polarization …
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competition over endogenously determined policies induces strategic restraint that reduces polarization and, in turn, wasteful …
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Many political commentators diagnose an increasing polarization of the U.S. electorate into two opposing camps. However … position of the median voter does not change. We show that media bias provides a mechanism through which political polarization … electoral outcomes. We show that polarization increases the profitability of slanting news, thereby raising the likelihood of …
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We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...
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This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
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, we show that substituting the auction contest success function for the lottery contest success function in a conflict may … radicals. Our results demonstrate the importance of the choice of the institutions of conflict, as modeled by the contest …
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conflict and more intense fighting …
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