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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper is the first study that analyzes the drivers of political protest using longitudinal data from a critical … consisting of panel data collected before and after the so called "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. Our empirical approach tackles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873441
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Determinants of protests : longitudinal evidence from Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - 2011
theoretical model. -- Conflict ; protest ; transition economy ; Ukraine ; longitudinal studies …This paper is the first study that analyzes the drivers of political protest using longitudinal data from a critical … consisting of panel data collected before and after the so called "Orange" revolution in Ukraine. Our empirical approach tackles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426697
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War and Social Attitudes
Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena - 2018
We study the long-run effects of con ict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on self- reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930115
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War and social attitudes
Child, Travers Barclay; Nikolova, Elena - 2018
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151292
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The Effect of Corruption on Internal Conflict in Iran Using Newspaper Coverage
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022
We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177570
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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022
We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803751
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The Effect of Opportunity Cost and Pacifism on Protests in Occupied Regions
Gupta, Rupayan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines how the opportunity costs of the leaders of a national protest movement, and the intrinsic pacifism … of the occupier, affect the nature of the movement against occupation. A two-stage game is modeled, in which a protest … level of force to punish the leader and other participants of the protest movement. The leaders of the protest can actively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534557
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‘Terrifyingly Normal’ Authoritarian Bureaucracies : Intra-Agency Reform and Secret Police Surveillance Capacity in Socialist Poland
Thomson, Henry - 2019
Coercive institutions are essential components of authoritarian states and contribute to regime durability. However, variation in the internal structures of these institutions remains relatively unexplored. I argue that frequent intra-agency reforms of coercive institutions shape the incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894938
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Modelling the Dynamics of Securizitating National Identities
Neumann, Martin - In: Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - … 10 (2012) 1, pp. 28-49
Using the example of conflict escalation in former Yugoslavia, a common framework of the mechanisms leading to conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651297
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The Reach of the State : Work Units, Family Ties and 'Harmonious Demolition'
O'Brien, Kevin J.; Deng, Yanhua - 2015
When faced with homeowners who refuse to accept appropriation of their property, local authorities often use family ties to extend the state's reach. To complete urban renewal, municipal demolition offices turn to resisters’ relatives who work for government bureaus, state-owned factories,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140126