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From Rags to Rifles : Deprivation, Conflict and the Welfare State

Rohner, Dominic - 2010

Historical evidence suggests that poor population groups are more likely to engage in conflict. We construct a theoretical model of the choice between appropriation and production. Fully specified production functions allow for both symmetrical outcomes and for introducing inequalities in...

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Communications Technology and Terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat - 2020

's level of CT is systematically related to terrorism. We introduce a simple theoretical framework, suggesting that terrorism … countries from 1970-2014, we find evidence for these predictions: Terrorism peaks at intermediate ranges of CT and corresponding …

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Political Regimes and the Determinants of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

Brugali, Nicola; Buonanno, Paolo; Gilli, Mario - 2018

Why do some democratic governments react weakly to terrorism, while apparently similar regimes react harshly? More … generally, what are the determinants of governments' reaction to terrorism? And, what are the determinants of terrorism and of … its dynamic? In this paper we focus on domestic terrorism and counter-terrorism as affected by economic de- velopment …

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Sunlight Disinfects? Free Media in Weak Democracies

Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2018

Free media may not favor political accountability when other democratic institutions are weak, and may even bring undesirable unintended consequences. We propose a simple model in which candidates running for office may engage in coercion to obtain votes. A media scandal exposing these...

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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...

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Does a change of government influence compliance with international agreements? : empirical evidence for the NATO two percent target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

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Why do military dictatorships become presidential democracies? : mapping the democratic interests of autocratic regimes

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2017

This paper starts with the observation that almost all military dictatorships that democratize become presidential democracies. I hypothesize that military interests are able to coordinate on status-preserving institutional change prior to democratization and therefore prefer political...

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Capitalism, Democracy, and Countermajoritarian Institutions

Weingast, Barry R. - 2015

Is the United States sufficiently democratic? And does it provide sufficient protection for the thriving markets that have sustained American prosperity? The answers are not obvious because these two values conflict. Many democratic theorists argue that the Constitution is not democratic because...

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Kleptocracy, Totalitarianism and Corruption

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2014

The present paper is part of unpublished book divided into three interrelated manuscripts that analyze the collapse of the Sudan. The theory introduced here is that the regime was built on kleptocratic framework. That enhanced a rapid transformation of the values' system of the country and...

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The Economics of Mass Shootings

Brodeur, Abel; Yousaf, Hasin - 2019

counties' employment and earnings. As well, successful mass shootings decrease housing prices and consumer confidence and …

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