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Agreeing to Fight : An Explanation of the Democratic Peace
Patty, John W.; Weber, Roberto A. - 2002
referred to as the "Democratic Peace," that modern democracies rarely go to war with one another. We propose that the …
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War and relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2009
We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We...
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Conflicts with multiple battlefields
Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2010
This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed "battlefields". In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...
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Terrorism, key assets, and critical infrastructures : to protect or to rebuild? ; that is the question
Crettez, Bertrand; Deloche, Régis - In: Public choice 144 (2010) 1/2, pp. 105-118
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Clausewitz on auctions
Häfner, Samuel - 2012
A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war structure. Such framing provides a microfounded...
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Determinants of the duration and ending of terrorist and other non-state armed groups
Noe, Dominik - 2013 - Rev.: September 2013
This study empirically investigates the impact of group characteristics and host country conditions on the duration and the ending of terrorist organizations and rebel groups. The empirical analysis relies on data for more than 600 armed groups from the Terrorist Organization Profiles, collected...
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Unequal Sacrifice : Income Inequality and Willingness to Fight Wars
Anderson, Christopher J. - 2010
Does economic inequality diminish the capacity of democracies to extract voluntary sacrifice? And does inequality undermine citizen's willingness to do their civic duty when the state is under threat? We address these questions by linking income inequality with people's willingness to fight for...
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A Theory of Complementarity between Rent Seeking and Production
Teng, Jimmy - 2013
This paper uses a formal model to analyze the effects of rent seeking contest on production when the contestants are both rent seekers and producers and production output is an input of rent seeking effort. Great economies of scale in rent seeking and an even distribution of rent seeking...
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The Security Factor in the Political Economy of Development
McGuire, Martin C. - 2006
A country`s judiciary, police, and security forces are essential to protect the State from external aggression. By … redistributive ethic in power. They absorb resources, but they also waste them, since security forces tend to be rent-seekers. This … paper analyzes both the productive and the unproductive side of security provision and shows that the balance depends on the …
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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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