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Violence against civilians in civil wars: Looting or terror?
Azam, Jean-Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - 2001
A simple two-stage game-theoretic model of conflict is analysed, where the government can send raiders for terrorising the population to flee before the fighting proper begins. The resulting displacement of population reduces the efficiency of the guerrilla in the fight against the government....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279330
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German parliamentary elections 2005 in the mirror of party manifestos
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2006
Five leading German political parties and their coalitions are evaluated with regard to party manifestos and results of … its high representativeness as well. Finally, all coalitions with two and three parties are also evaluated. The coalition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296116
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Decision making in politics and economics: 4. Bundestag elections 2009 and direct democracy
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2010
Five German leading parties and their coalitions are evaluated from the viewpoint of direct democracy. For this purpose …), whereas the most representative is the left party Linke which received only 11.9% votes. As for possible coalitions, the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302623
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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324912
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Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Oak, Mandar - 2004
be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be `disconnected'. We then look at how the coalition …
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Stable coalitions
Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen - 2002
This paper examines recent theoretical developments of the theory of coalition stability. It focuses on the relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure, and the different assumptions on membership rules, coalition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335673
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Stable organizations with externalities
Currarini, Sergio - 2002
coalitions that are connected in the organization can effectively object to it, the star organization prevails under positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335721
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Desproporcionalidade da representação na câmara dos deputados: Análise dos efeitos sobre o sistema partidário no Brasil
Cavalcante, Pedro; Turgeon, Mathieu - 2015
electoral coalitions, we found results that suggest strong malapportionment effects on partisan bias in Brazil. These effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372247
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Estado, atores predominantes e coalizões para o desenvolvimento: Brasil e Argentina em perspectiva comparada
Gaitán, Flavio; Boschi, Renato Raul - 2015
This paper aims to analyze the role of government coalitions in the formulation and implementation of a socioeconomic … development model. It is a qualitative research that focuses on the extent to which the formation of coalitions to support a … with the institutional dimension, in particular the role of the State, of government coalitions, of various public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372361
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A clinical approach to the governance of conflict-systems
Apreda, Rodolfo - 2012
Whereas a clinical approach to organizations has a well-deserved predicament, narrowing down such viewpoint to governance issues in organizations shows that there has been, so far, an almost complete neglect of this field of enquiry, on which this paper intends to make a contribution. Firstly,...
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