determined by how the direct conflict resulting from disagreement would be resolved. Our basic building block is the disagreement … individual rationality we reach a unique solution: the agreement in the shadow of conflict, ASC. This agreement may be construed …

This paper analyzes the relationship between ethnic fractionalization, polarization, and conflict. In recent years many … authors have found empirical evidence that ethnic fractionalization has a negative effect on growth. One mechanism that can … explain this nexus is the effect of ethnic heterogeneity on rent-seeking activities and the increase in potential conflict …

We analyze a model of conflict with endogenous choice of effort, where subsets of the contenders may force the …

the connection between enfranchisement and growth: When (1) there exist an economic conflict among the elite, (2) landed … analyze the effects of franchise changes on economic growth. We identify in the social structure of society an explanation for … classes are not politically strong, and (3) there exists a critical mass of industrial workers, we observe both growth and …

Some natural resources—oil and minerals in particular—exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their … could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, transform economics and politics in Nigeria. …

We find that trade and domestic market size are robust determinants of economic growth over the 1960-1996 period when … openness') however, trade and the size of domestic markets are often non-robust determinants of growth. We argue that real …

This note tries to clarify some remaining issues in the debate on the effect of income shocks on civil conflict …. Section 1 discusses the discrepant findings on the effect of rainfall shocks on civil conflict in Miguel and Satyanath (2010 … (rainfall-driven) income shocks on civil conflict and contrasts the conclusions with those of Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti …

We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are … equivalently the Euro-Latin procedure. Our axiomatic approach provides a proper understanding of these voting institutions, and …