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Corneo, Giacomo; Jeanne, Olivier - CESifo - 2007

We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people. Value systems are endogenous and taught by parents to their children. In conjunction with actual behavior, value systems determine the esteem enjoyed by individuals. Intolerant...

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Weapons of Choice

Dreher, Axel - 2015

This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...

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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict

Jetter, Michael - 2018

open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive … group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, whereas conflict looms under poor executive constraints. Analyzing annual … when considering the incidence and onset of terrorism and conflict. The corresponding magnitudes are economically sizeable …

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The Political Economics of the Arab Spring

Hodler, Roland - 2021

The Arab Spring has led to very different outcomes across the Arab world. I present a highly stylized model of the Arab Spring to better understand these differences. In this model, dictators from the ethnic or religious majority group concede power if their country is oil-poor, but can stay in...

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard; Jensen, Peter S. - 2021

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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Extremism Drives Out Moderation

Klose, Bettina S. - 2012

, 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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Alliances in the Shadow of Conflict

Ke, Changxia - 2013

conflict and more intense fighting …

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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict

Krieger, Tim - 2016

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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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Mobility and Conflict

Bhattacharya, Sourav; Deb, Joyee; Kundu, Tapas - 2021

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

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