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Goyal, Sanjeev; Staal, Klaas - 2000

We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or toseparate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessiveincentives to separate. This leads us...

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Regional resources and democratic secessionism

Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2018

Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...

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Voting under the threat of secession: accommodation versus repression

Anesi, Vincent; De Donder, Philippe - In: Social choice and welfare 41 (2013) 2, pp. 241-261

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Secessions and political extremism : why regional referenda do not solve the problem

Olofsgård, Anders - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 2 (2004) 5, pp. 805-832

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Voting, public goods and violence

Staal, Klaas - 2005

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Voting Under the Threat of Secession : Accommodation vs. Repression

Anesi, Vincent - 2011

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show … measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static analysis of the equilibrium policy location and of the secession … factors, the relative size of the minority region, the probability that a secession attempt is successful, and the intra …

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