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Riot rewards? Study of BJP's electoral performance and Hindu Muslim riots
Ticku, Rohit - 2015
Do incidents of ethnic polarization influence voter behavior? I address this question through the case study of India …
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001. We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …
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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi …
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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict
Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022
This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...
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Touch Thee Not : Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2019
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … SCs, or, more interestingly, of Muslims and Christians, will reduce it. Strikingly, a marginal redistribution of resources … population share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …
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Touch Thee Not : Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two … of SCs, or, of Muslims and Christians, will reduce it. Strikingly, a marginal redistribution of resources from OBCs to … share and land share, we find support for these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109993
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Touch Thee Not : Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Pal, Sarmistha; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2020
– engaged in by upper and intermediate caste (OBC) Hindus vis-à-vis ‘scheduled’ castes (SCs) in rural India. Despite legal … endowment (power) of SCs, or, more interestingly, that of Muslims and Christians, will reduce the likelihood of an upper caste … consistent with these hypotheses in data from the India Human Development Survey 2011-12 …
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A model of dynamic conflict in ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2015
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024
We model a rent-seeking contest among two "identity ideologues", differentially located along a uni-dimensional identity continuum, and a "mercenary", who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity-relevant good ("religion") and an identity-irrelevant good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064493
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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India
Iyer, Sriya - 2015
societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001.We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011137