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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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ISIS Political Economy : Financing a Terror State

Stergiou, Dimitrios - 2018

controls. Oil, illegal ‘taxation', extorting and smuggling from passports to slaves, are already known as terrorism financing …

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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry

Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and...

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Exclusivity of Groups in Contests

Send, Jonas - 2021

I analyse a group contest in which groups decide over two dimensions of membership-exclusivity: whether a member is allowed to join the group at all, and whether this member is allowed to join another group as well. If the prize is mostly private, group leaders do not oﬀer membership in...

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Divide and conquer : noisy communication in networks, power, and wealth distribution

Pérez Oviedo, 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...

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The Collective Action Problem : Within-group Cooperation and Between-group Competition in a Repeated Rent-Seeking Game

Cheikbossian, Guillaume - 2008

This paper analyzes the ability of group members to cooperate in rent-seeking in a context of between-group competition. For this purpose, we develop an infinitely repeated rent-seeking model with two groups where within-group cooperation is supported through the use of a double-edged trigger...

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua - 2006

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader?s ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is valuable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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Rally post-terrorism

Chen, Shuai - 2022

, in order to mitigate concerns over selectivity of terrorism in particular areas. I empirically show that both terrorism … compare such political changes after successful attacks to those after failed attacks of the same type. I find that post-terrorism … acquisition as alternative explanations. This paper first empirically analyzes the driver of the rally effect of terrorism by …

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The political economy of food price policy : a synthesis

Watson, Derrill D. - 2015

This paper identifies eight political economy factors that influenced governments' policy choices during the most recent global food price crisis. To explain the variety of responses and the policy failures, a framework is proposed that locates policies along the twin dimensions of unitary vs....

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