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The UN Goldstone Report and retraction : an empirical investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 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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Moderating political extremism : single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule

Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 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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Migrating extremists

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2016 - This version: February 25, 2016

We show that migrating extremists shape political landscapes toward their ideology in the long run. We exploit the unexpected division of the state of Upper Austria into a US and a Soviet occupation zone after WWII. Zoning prompts large-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that...

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Historical roots of political extremism : the effects of Nazi occupation of Italy

Fontana, Nicola; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2017

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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Going to extremes : politics after financial crisis, 1870 - 2014

Funke, Manuel; Schularick, Moritz; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015

. Recent events in Europe provide ample evidence that the political aftershocks of financial crises can be severe. In this … paper we study the political fall-out from systemic financial crises over the past 140 years. We construct a new long … strongly after financial crises as government majorities shrink and polarization rises. After a crisis, voters seem to be …

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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism

Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020

We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...

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Extremism drives out moderation

Klose, Bettina; Kovenock J., Dan - 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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Habit formation, strategic extremism and debt policy

Matsen, Egil (contributor); Thøgersen, Øystein (contributor) - 2007

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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 - 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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Leveraged bubbles

Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2015

What risks do asset price bubbles pose for the economy? This paper studies bubbles in housing and equity markets in 17 countries over the past 140 years. History shows that not all bubbles are alike. Some have enormous costs for the economy, while others blow over. We demonstrate that what makes...

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