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Determinants of revolt: Evidence from survey and laboratory data
Abbink, Klaus; Pezzini, Silvia - 2005
This paper examines determinants of revolutionary behaviour. We study the role of freedom of communication, repression of opposition and the government's selfishness. Combining econometric analysis of survey data with a laboratory experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290540
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Determinants of Revolt: Evidence from Survey and Laboratory Data
ABBINK, KLAUS; PEZZINI, SILVIA - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2005
This paper examines determinants of revolutionary behaviour. We study the role of freedom of communication, repression of opposition and the government’s selfishness. Combining econometric analysis of survey data with a laboratory experiment, we analyse how these factors affect preferences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150924
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The costs of conflict
Smith, Adam C.; Houser, Daniel; Leeson, Peter T.; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 61-71
Violent conflict destroys resources. It generates “destruction costs.” These costs have an important effect on … individuals’ decisions to cooperate or conflict. We develop two models of conflict: one in which conflict's destruction costs are … independent of individuals’ investments in “arms”—the tools of conflict—and another in which conflict's destruction costs depend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048222
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934658
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Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
Campante, Filipe R.; Do, Quoc-Anh; Guimaraes, Bernardo - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2014
We investigate the links between capital cities, conict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that this threat is rendered less e_ective by distance from the seat of political power. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934664
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Determinants of revolt : evidence from survey and laboratory data
Abbink, Klaus (contributor); Pezzini, Silvia (contributor) - 2005
dictatorship. -- Conflict ; revolutions ; experimental economics ; surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002570041
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Autocracy and the public: Mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341087
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Autocracy and the public : mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships
Apolte, Thomas - 2015
Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336491
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On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict
Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013
We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771751
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How alliances form and conflict ensues
Dong, Lu; Huang, Lingbo; Lien, Jaimie W.; Zheng, Jie - 2021 - Current draft: July, 2021
-makers form, and what determines whether a conflict will arise? We study a network formation game between ex-ante symmetric … players in the laboratory to examine the dynamics of alliance formation and conflict evolution. A peaceful equilibrium yields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603859