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, and in the community. While earlier studies have found important age patterns (often U-shaped) and social context effects … models with and without other control variables. The U-shape in age is found to be significantly flatter, and well-being in … couples, and for those who have lived for longer in their communities. A strong sense of community belonging is associated …
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Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or influence...
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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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