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The Preoccupation of the United Nations with Israel: Evidence and Theory

Becker, Raphael N.; Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2014

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and June 2013 and find a preoccupation with one country: in 65 percent of instances in which a country is criticized in a resolution, the country is Israel, with no other country...

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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values

Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … children. The state invests resources in public indoctrination infrastructures. The model displays two-way complementarities …

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Poverty in the eyes of Brazilian elites

Reis, Elisa P. - 2010

This paper discusses data from a survey and in-depth interviews on elite perceptions of poverty in Brazil. De Swaan tried to identify the circumstances under which elites are willing to mobilize resources in order to promote poverty reduction. This paper questions if de Swaan's analysis applies...