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Why is there no revolution in North-Korea? The political economy of revolution revisited
Apolte, Thomas - 2010
In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307191
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Toward a more general approach to political stability in comparative political systems
Apolte, Thomas - 2012
distinguishes different subgroups of a society, some of which have a potential for pursuing a redistribution of wealth in its … redistribution cycles, leading to failed states. For much the same reason, democratic constitutions contain effective measures … against redistribution cycles. Stability within non-democracies, by contrast, can be explained by the fact that commitments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308830
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul - 2010
This paper studies empirically the relationship between oil endowment and the duration of autocratic leaders. A simple theoretical setting shows how the relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime is mediated by the price of oil. Using a dataset on 106...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293351
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Oil and the duration of dictatorships
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Oberhofer, Harald; Raschky, Paul - 2008
This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of its autocratic leader. The dictator uses the rents from oil extraction for both personal gain and to pay-off potential opposition and chooses an optimal level of oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293400
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307605
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Resource Extraction in a Political Economy Framework
Ryszka, Karolina - 2013
We analyze resource extraction in a political economy setting by introducing a political leader who optimizes both his own and the society's welfare function. We find that accounting for the private utility of a political elite, its higher discount rate and a different time horizon generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326163
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The Politics of Bargaining as a Group
Anesi, Vincent; Buisseret, Peter - 2023
We develop a dynamic model in which a group collectively bargains with an external party. At each date the group makes an offer to the external party (the 'agent') in exchange for a concession. Group members hold heterogeneous preferences over agreements and are uncertain about the agent's...
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The political economy of growth and distribution: A theoretical critique
Josten, Stefan Dietrich; Truger, Achim - 2003
inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306778
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2014
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329226
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Intergenerational redistribution with asymmetric information: The case of non-observable savings
Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999
This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping- generations model that allows for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331072