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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Citizens' protests : causes and consequences : a research on regime change and revolutionary entrepreneurs by Bueno De Mesquita

Gilli, Mario; Giorgini, Filippo - 2022

Citizens political participation to protests is a crucial issue for any political system, whether democratic or autocratic. Political systems have different ways of dealing with citizens' protests, determining cost and benefit of public dissent, responding to public requests and allowing...

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The effect of a crisis on trust and willingness to reform : evidence from survey panels in Argentina and Uruguay

Bonvecchi, Alejandro; Calvo, Ernesto; … - 2022

two survey panels in Argentina and Uruguay, with a first wave fielded before COVID-19 (the crisis studied here) and a …

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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement

Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … democracy proxied by the strength of direct democratic institutions and (ii) the size of the new electorate. Our results provide … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …

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Tax reforms in Latin America in an era of democracy

Focanti, Diego; Hallerberg, Mark; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2013

The literature on taxes and public finance generally focuses on revenues, an easily observable and generally available variable, as the observable measure of tax policy. Still, revenues depend on many determinants other than the political will and policy objectives of the government. It is...

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Multilateral bargaining in networks : on the prevalence of inefficiencies

Lee, Joosung - 2015

We introduce a noncooperative multilateral bargaining model for a network-restricted environment, in which players can communicate only with their neighbors. Each player strategically chooses the bargaining partners among the neighbors to buy out their communication links with upfront transfers....

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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Farsighted stability with heterogeneous expectations

Bloch, Francis; Nouweland, Anne van den - 2017

This paper analyzes farsighted stable sets when agents have heterogeneous expectations over the dominance paths. We consider expectation functions satisfying two properties of path-persistence and consistency. We show that farsighted stable sets with heterogeneous expectations always exist and...

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A tragic solution to the collective action problem : implication for corruption, conflict and inequality

Nieva, Ricardo - 2020

We study the role of an enforcer in the effectiveness of selective incentives in solving the collective action problem when groups take part in a contest. Cost functions exhibit constant elasticity of marginal effort costs. If prize valuations are homogeneous, our source of heterogeneity induces...

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The economic impact of weather and climate

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...

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