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The Origin of the State : Incentive Compatible Extraction under Environmental Circumscription

Schönholzer, David - 2017

Theories of early state formation posit that the state enabled an emerging elite to extract resources in exchange for protection from outside groups. This paper formalizes and empirically evaluates these forces in a unified framework. The model shows that extraction is closely linked to the idea...

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Fragilité régionale, capacité de l’État et guerre civile (Regional Vulnerability, State Capacity, and Civil War)

Silve, Arthur - 2018

French Abstract: Il est fréquent que de voir des guerres civiles éclater simultanément dans des pays voisins. Ceci tient notamment à ce que ces pays présentent des caractéristiques communes, et aussi à ce qu'une guerre civile favorise l'apparition de conflits dans les pays voisins. La...

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Taxation in Autocracies : When Is Super-Encompassing Interest Preserved?

Wang, Yijiang - 2016

A theory is introduced to systematically explain autocracies' diverse experiences with taxation. State power relative to citizens' capacity for violence determines the limit of taxation, the highest tax rate that citizens will tolerate and pay. Rulers can spend resources on coercion to increase...

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A Theory of Regional Conflict Complexes

Silve, Arthur; Verdier, Thierry - 2018

Civil conflicts spill over into neighboring countries. This paper proposes a theory of the contagion of civil wars. Weak territorial control facilitates the emergence of a regional market for war inputs in the “porous frontier.” The contagion effect is nonlinear and creates multiple...

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Social Crisis Prevention: A Political Alert Index for the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Palma, André De; Perali, Federico; Picard, Nathalie; … - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2013

This study presents a novel approach to crisis prevention based on data on premonitory political and religious events and the international media coverage of publicly sensitive circumstances. We implement our method to the Israel-Palestine conflict. First we identify two main political scenarios...

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Social Crisis Prevention: A Political Alert Index for the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Palma, André De; Perali, Federico; Picard, Nathalie; … - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2013

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Play it again : partner choice, reputation building and learning in restarting, finitely-repeated dilemma games

Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis G. - 2013

remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation … forces of (a) learning about the benefits of reputation, and (b) learning about backward unraveling. We find, inter alia …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

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A model of a multilateral proxy war with spillovers

Bagchi, Aniruddha; Faria, João Ricardo; Mathews, Timothy - In: Public choice 179 (2019) 3/4, pp. 229-248

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International Agreements, Reputational Screening and the Long-Run Interests of the State

Meraglia, Simone - 2016

Incomplete information on the degree to which governments internalize the long-run interests of the state is an essential element of information asymmetry in international relations. A reputational model with such incomplete information captures two observed facts: i. costly activities, among...

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Reputation, social identity and social conflict

Smith, John - 2007

We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially composed of such agents. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show...

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