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How civilian attitudes respond to the state's violence: lessons from the Israel-Gaza conflict

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021

States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...

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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021

In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...

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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

Air Force. The reform seeks to address challenges facing military R&D, in particular a less innovative defense industrial … base. We show that the Open program attracts new entrants, defined as younger firms and those without previous defense SBIR … awards. In a regression discontinuity design that offers the first causal evaluation of a defense R&D program, we show that …

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Money can't buy love but can it buy peace? : evidence from the EU programme for peace and reconciliation

Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T. N. - 2014

In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...

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Can war foster cooperation?

Bauer, Michal; Blattman, Christopher J.; Chytilová, Julie - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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Israel, the Palestinian factions, and the cycle of violence

Jaeger, David A. (contributor); … - 2006

In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...

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The cycle of violence? : An empirical analysis of fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Jaeger, David A. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the outbreak of the Second (or "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than 3,300 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis have been killed. The conflict has followed an uneven pattern, with...

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Ethnic divisions and the onset of civil wars in Syria

Abosedra, Salah S.; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2021

While most civil wars seem to have an economic basis, they are generally pushed by political, ethnic, and religious differences. This paper attempts to identify the drivers of the Syrian civil war of 2011 by investigating the role of ethnic divisions in starting a conflict. We integrate a...

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An injury to one is an injury to all : terrorism's spillover effects on bilateral trade

Pham, Cong S.; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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