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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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Foreign influence and domestic policy : a survey
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019
dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987983
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What does network analysis teach us about international environmental cooperation?
Carattini, Stefano; Fankhauser, Samuel; Gao, Jianjian; … - 2021
Over the past 70 years, the number of international environmental agreements (IEAs) has increased substantially, highlighting their prominent role in environmental governance. This paper applies the toolkit of network analysis to identify the network properties of international environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547019
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104086
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Wars of conquest and independence
Hodler, Roland; Yektaş, Hadi - 2013
Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754525
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Land grabbing and ethnic conflict
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 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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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467392
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The political economy of heterogeneity and conflict
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2016
In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580606