Search Results - subject:"repression"

Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2023

which repression and bad decision-making are self-reinforcing. Repressions reduce the threat, yet raise the stakes for the …

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

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Persecution and escape

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039

The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

Dukalskis, Alexander; Furstenberg, Saipira; Hellmeier, … - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (2024) 6, pp. 1051-1079

The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several strategies used by authoritarian … determinants of transnational repression. It argues that an increase in domestic repression is likely to lead to a subsequent … increase in transnational repression because crackdowns at home drive dissent abroad and incentivize the state to extend its …

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Persecution and migrant self-selection : evidence from the collapse of the communist bloc

Abramitzky, Ran; Baseler, Travis; Sin, Isabelle - 2022

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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - In: American economic journal 16 (2024) 3, pp. 1-43

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McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression : Evidence from Hollywood

Tan, Hui Ren; Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study a far-reaching episode of demagoguery in American history. From the late 1940s to 1950s, anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others gripped the nation. Hundreds of professionals in Hollywood were accused of having ties with the communist. We show that these...

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Hayeks Warnung vor der Knechtschaft : eine kommentierte Einführung in das Jahrhundertbuch "The Road to Serfdom" 80 Jahre nach seiner Erstausgabe

Gebauer, Carlos A. - 2024

Der spätere Nobelpreisträger Friedrich A. von Hayek publizierte kurz vor dem D-Day des Jahres 1944 sein analytisches Meisterstück The Road to Serfdom. Er präsentierte damit eine präzise Beschreibung der wesentlichen gesellschaftspolitischen Ursachen, die zu der nationalsozialistischen...

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The Long Arm and the Iron Fist: Authoritarian Crackdowns and Transnational Repression

Dukalskis, Alexander; Furstenberg, Saipira; Hellmeier, … - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution (2023) OnlineFirst, pp. 1-29

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Political cycles of media repression

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2025

In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to … mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to … creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a …

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