Desmet, Klaus; Le Breton, Michel; Ortuño Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2006
This paper presents a model of nation formation in which culturally heterogeneous agents vote on the optimal level of … determining the likelihood of secession and unification. We provide empirical support for choosing genetic distances as a proxy of … the regions prone to secession and the countries that are more likely to merge. Our framework is further applied to …
