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On the Dynamics of Ethnic Fractionalization

Campos, Nauro F.; Kuzeyev, Vitaliy S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Does fractionalization change over time? If so, are there any substantial implications foreconomic performance? To answer such questions, we construct a new panel data set withfractionalization measures for 26 former communist countries covering the period from 1989to 2002...

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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

Fontana, Nicola - 2017

occupation and the civil war left a lasting legacy of political extremism and polarization on the newborn Italian democracy …

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Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Colussi, Tommaso - 2016

find that the presence of a mosque increases political extremism. To establish causality, we exploit arguably exogenous …

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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo - 2013

We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...

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Family and Politics : Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Siedler, Thomas - 2021

Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. This is consistent …

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