Passarelli, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2013
unpleasant policy choices. -- emotions ; political economics ; unrest ; riots ; fairness ; public debt ; procrastination …This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated … by emotions. Individuals engage in protests if they are aggrieved and feel that they have been treated unfairly. This …