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Rubin, Jared - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 42 (2014) 2, pp. 340-357

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State History and Contemporary Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2015

I examine empirically the role of historical political centralization on the likelihood of modern civil conflict in Sub … to document a robust negative statistical relationship between local long-run exposure to state institutions and … within-country long history of statehood is linked to people's positive attitudes toward local state institutions and …

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Tectonic boundaries and strongholds : the religious geography of violence in Northern Ireland

Mueller, Hannes; Rohner, Dominic; Schoenholzer, David - 2013

The conflict in Northern Ireland was an example of "complex warfare" with both insurgency and sectarian violence. We present a unified model that helps to identify these two forms of conflict from the spatial distribution of violence. The model predicts that tectonic boundaries between...

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Autocracy and the public : mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships

Apolte, Thomas - 2015

Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...

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Determinants of revolt : evidence from survey and laboratory data

Abbink, Klaus (contributor); Pezzini, Silvia (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines determinants of revolutionary behaviour. We study the role of freedom of communication, repression of opposition and the government’s selfishness. Combining econometric analysis of survey data with a laboratory experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for...

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Gordon Tullock's theory of dictatorship and revolution

Apolte, Thomas - 2015

We assess Gordon Tullock's work on dictatorship and revolutions using a common analytic framework that captures the dynamics of mutually reinforcing perceptions within a potentially rebelling subgroup of a population. We can reconstruct all of Tullock's central findings but we also find him...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2002

A fundamental question about the determinants of civil conflict is the relative importance of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro-data based on surveys of revolutionary tastes of 130,000 people living in 61 nations...

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The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - 2005

Property rights, whose security is often threatened by civil conflict, are a necessary condition for the establishment of a market economy. Yet a fundamental and unresolved empirical question is whether the lack of political and civil freedoms is one of the root causes of greater insecurity....

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A model of protests, revolution, and information

Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2017

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If you can't include them, exclude them : countering the Arab uprisings in Algeria and Jordan

Josua, Maria - 2016

. This paper compares the strategies and their respective target groups in Algeria and Jordan, two cases of limited protests … inclusionary strategies were aimed at another target, the regime’s support base. The decreasing extent of political protests can …

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