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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008610965
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Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks
Berman, Eli; Laitin, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Who chooses suicide attacks? Though rebels typically target poor countries, suicide attacks are just as likely to target rich democracies. Though many groups have grievances, suicide attacks are favored by the radical religious. Though rebels often kill coreligionists, they seldom use suicide...
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Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Party platforms differ sharply from one another, especially on issues with religious content, such as abortion or gay marriage. Religious extremism in the U.S. appears to be strategically targeted to win elections, since party platforms diverge significantly, while policy outcomes like abortion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580158
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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State
Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950707
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Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model
Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …
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Why Does Democracy Need Education?
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084522
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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes … completely within 90 days. We also find some evidence that Palestinian fatalities lead to the polarization of the population and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714870
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Can Public Discussion Enhance Program Ownership?
Drazen, Allan; Isard, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
We use the concepts of deliberative democracy from political science and cheap talk from economics to develop a better understanding of how public discussion can contribute to building and demonstrating ownership of IMF programs and hence to program success. We argue that ownership is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720843
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Foreign Influence and Welfare
Antras, Pol; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
How do foreign interests influence the policy determination process? What are the welfare implications of such foreign influence? In this paper we develop a model of foreign influence and apply it to the study of optimal tariffs. We develop a two-country voting model of electoral competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778622
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Endogenous Property Rights
Sonin, Konstantin; Diermeier, Daniel; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
It is often argued that additional checks and balances provide economic agents with better protection from expropriation of their wealth or productive capital. We demonstrate that in a dynamic political economy model this intuition may be flawed. Surprisingly, increasing the number of veto...
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