Rogers, Douglas B.; Smith, Adam C.; Wilson, Bart J. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) C, pp. 1-17
treatment comparisons, we vary the access that “peasants” have to violence-empowered “elites”. The focus of the experiment is to … observe how elites enforce and operate their protective services to peasants, and to observe the degree to which elites engage … access to peasants strikingly increases violence among the elites, but with limited access the elites markedly extract more …