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election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence.  We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning.  We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents.  We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …
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election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning. We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents. We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597150
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, unprecedented levels of violence erupted across the country adding to the history of troubled elections in … Africa and one seriously marred by violence. The study was conducted following the methodology as under: Collecting, sorting … by the violence regardless of their ethnicity and wealth. The chances of being a victim of violence were higher in where …
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We test the predictions of a behavioral model of transactional electoral politics in the context of a randomized anti-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one’s vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self at the moment of voting, but not...
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family violence, shows support for the negative effects associated with poverty traps in urban Africa. Neighbourhood …
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Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia, this article empirically tests whether election outcomes affect targeting of subsidized fertilizer and whether fertilizer subsidies win votes. Results suggest that the Zambian...
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This paper presents an econometric analysis of impacts of the communist revolution by the Khmer Rouge (1975-’79) in Cambodia on economic behaviors of survivors after 1979. Specifically, we compare forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime with regular marriages after its collapse, and make...
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democratic alternation of power); the setting up of sound institutions that characterise “modern” societies; control of violence … » ; contrôle de la violence ; expression des aspirations économiques et citoyennes de la population. Trois entraves structurelles s …
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treatment comparisons, we vary the access that “peasants” have to violence-empowered “elites”. The focus of the experiment is to … in wealth-destroying violence in competition amongst each other for wealth-generating peasants. We find that greater … access to peasants strikingly increases violence among the elites, but with limited access the elites markedly extract more …
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democratic alternation of power); the setting up of sound institutions that characterise “modern” societies; control of violence …
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