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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

The United Nations Goldstone Report criminalized self-defense against state-sponsored or state-perpetrated terror. We use voting on the two UN General Assembly resolutions relating to the Goldstone Report to study whether support for the Goldstone principle of criminalization of self-defense...

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation

Klose, Bettina S. - 2012

This article investigates the impact of the distribution of preferences on equilibrium behavior in conflicts that are modeled as all-pay auctions with identity-dependent externalities. In this context, we define centrists and radicals using a willingness-to-pay criterion that admits preferences...

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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

Fontana, Nicola - 2018

The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...

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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs. Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo - 2009

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...

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Habit Formation, Strategic Extremism and Debt Policy

Matsen, Egil; Thogersen, Oystein - 2021

We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation. Current policies determine habit levels and in turn the future preferences of the voters. This allows the incumbent to act strategically in order to influence the probability...

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Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps

Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - CESifo - 2014

institutions precede crises and, interestingly, positive reforms occur thereafter. Strong institutions shorten the duration of … crises, ethnic cleavages do the reverse. However, the negative effects of ethnic cleavages are not insurmountable: an …

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Strategic Complementarity, Fragility, and Regulation

Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the …

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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel : Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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Lock, Stock, and Barrel : A Comprehensive Assessment of the Determinants of Terror

Gassebner, Martin - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three … most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i …

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Looking Back on Anger : Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist - Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in … types of ideologically or ethnically motivated terrorism make it plausible that they respond differently to specific social … strength) or nationalist-separatist terrorism (e.g., ethnic polarization, non-violent protest). However, both types of …

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