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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. Expenditure cuts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851354
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Framing “The Climate Issue”: Patterns of Participation and Prognostic Frames among Climate Summit Protesters
Wahlström, Mattias; Wennerhag, Magnus; Rootes, Christopher - In: Global Environmental Politics 13 (2013) 4, pp. 101-122
responses to surveys of three large demonstrations in Copenhagen, Brussels, and London, organized in connection with the 2009 UN … demonstrators varied. The demonstrations were products of the mobilization of broad coalitions of groups, and we find significant … of the three demonstrations, the perspectives and values of individual participants, and the extent of their …
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The People Want the Fall of the Regime": Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy
Campante, Filipe R.; Chor, Davin - School of Economics, Singapore Management University - 2012
We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest, motivated by the wave of popular uprisings in Arab countries starting in late 2010. We draw attention to one of the most fundamental correlates of political activity identied in the literature, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539188
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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 251-271
demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish …
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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008
Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. We test if the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201119
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A Shade of Philosophy or Kierkegaard and Spinoza
Hemelík, Martin - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2005 (2005) 5, pp. 86-101
The article sets out to reconstruct the Kierkegaard´s critique of the demonstrations of God´s existence by B. Spinoza …. The Danish thinker elected the ideas of the Dutch philosopher for that reason that the spinozistic demonstrations …
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WCD Thematic Review 1.3:Social Aspects: Contributing Paper: Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation and Development
Hemadri, Ravi; Mander, Harsh; Nagraj, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper seeks primarily to establish some benchmarks for policy and law for displacement and rehabilitation in India. It will do this by looking briefly at the actual experience of displacement due to big dams in India in 50 years, the resistance to big dams, and also by examining some of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699357
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The Struggle for Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Stilwell, Frank - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 38 (2006) 4, pp. 539-550
There has been a long struggle to establish political economy courses at the University of Sydney. It began more than three decades ago as a student-staff movement challenging the dominance of neoclassical economics in the undergraduate curriculum. It has matured into an established program of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797172
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The Arab spring and Islamic legal thought
Sykiainen, Leonid - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
the “fiqh of revolution” which justifies the demonstrations and protests against the regime from a Sharia-based point of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720533
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The economics of demonstrations: The effect of competition on demonstration and pricing strategies
Heiman, Amir - In: Marketing Letters 21 (2010) 4, pp. 351-363
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