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From courtrooms to charts : the impact of Kavanaugh's appointment on music consumption

Rossi, Luca; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024

This study examines the impact of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment on U.S. music consumption, specifically exploring changes in streaming patterns on Spotify. With a difference-in-differences approach, we analyze the streaming data of the top 200 songs, revealing a significant...

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Weapons of choice

Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 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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Workers of the world, unite! : franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as … revolution in a given country by revolutionary events happening in neighboring countries. We investigate the relationship between … this new measure of the threat of revolution and measures of suffrage reform in two samples of European countries covering …

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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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Mining for peace

Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023

The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...

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Regime spoiler or regime pawn : the military and distributional conflict in non-democracies

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014

I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the …

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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption based on newspaper coverage. We use the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model and its applied tools of impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to track the response of...

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The effect of Islamic revolution and war on income inequality in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Kadivar, Mohammad Ali - 2021

Existing research has pointed to the decreasing effect of revolutions and wars on income inequality. It is unclear … whether this reduction is the result of ongoing changes within countries before revolutions and wars or if the results are … standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from …

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Between hope and despair : Egypt's revolution and migration intentions

Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021

We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … measure revolution intensity using the spacial variation in the number of deaths during the revolution from the Statistical … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of …

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Satisfaction with amenities and taste for revolt in the Middle East

Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals' satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...

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