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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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Evolutionary dynamics of nationalism and migration
Barreira da Silva Rocha, André - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545805
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Weber revisited : the protestant ethic and the spirit of nationalism
Kersting, Felix; Wohnsiedler, Iris; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2020
We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is …
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Measuring the rise of economic nationalism
Bolle, Monica Baumgarten de; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224197
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Nationalism and development in Asia
Duara, Prasenjit - 2018
This paper identifies historic patterns in the dialectic between nationalism and development across various East, South …, and Southeast Asian nations. Nationalism as the rationale for development is used by regimes to achieve high levels of … growth, but also generates exclusivism and hostilities, often in order to integrate a political core. Popular nationalism has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895540
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War violence, nationalism, and party support : evidence from Italy
Lemoli, Giacomo; Gennaro, Gloria - 2023
Under what conditions can legacies of past violence shape political behaviour? We propose a theory of how war victimization defines attitudes over the long run, and how these can be activated by changes in the political environment. We argue that exposure to violence by members of a different...
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Immigration and nationalism in the long run
Lang, Valentin; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2023
experience with immigration can curb nationalism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334359
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Harbingers of dissolution? Grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Habsburg economy before the First World War
Wolf, Nikolaus; Schulze, Max-Stephan - 2005
This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual dissolution. To this end we adopt an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299084
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Nationalism, cognitive ability, and interpersonal relations
Corneo, Giacomo - 2010
achievement trait (income). Individuals with lower cognitive ability are predicted to invest more value on nationalism and to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300712
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Diversionary nationalism: Economic inequality and the formation of national pride
Solt, Frederick - 2008
argument is that greater economic inequality prompts states to generate more nationalism as a diversion that discourages their … data on international conflict from the Correlates of War project. Only the diversionary theory of nationalism is supported …. This conclusion is an important contribution to our understanding of nationalism as well as of the effects of economic …
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