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Networks of dissent : social leaders and protest in an autocracy

Buggle, Johannes; Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2025

autocracy. We focus on the Protestant Church and the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany. To quantify the role of leader …

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The political economy of Kazakhstan : a case of good economics, bad politics?

Commander, Simon; Prieskienyte, Ruta - In: Russian journal of economics 8 (2022) 2, pp. 122-158

personalized around the founder President, his family and associates. This is reflected in the economics of the autocracy whereby …

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Political equality, coalition formation, and economic performance in autocracies

Yao, Yang - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 72-83

Autocracies have diverse records of economic growth. This paper provides a theory of endogenous coalition formation to … explain economic performance in autocracy. The nature of the ruling coalition that the autocrat relies on to rule the society … and extract rents affects the degree of inclusiveness of the autocracy's political and economic institutions that …

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The information content of conflict, social unrest and policy uncertainty measures for macroeconomic forecasting

Diakonova, Marina; Molina, Luis; Mueller, Hannes; … - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 5 (2024) 4, pp. 1-15

It is widely accepted that episodes of social unrest, conflict, political tensions and policy uncertainty affect the economy. Nevertheless, the real-time dimension of such relationships is less studied, and it remains unclear how to incorporate them in a forecasting framework. This can be partly...

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Local agency costs of political centralization

Myerson, Roger B. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 425-448

democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer …

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On guarantees, vetoes, and random dictators

Bogomolnaia, Anna; Holzman, Ron; Moulin, Hervé - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 18 (2023) 1, pp. 97-127

A mechanism guarantees a certain welfare level to its agents, if each of them can secure that level against unanimously adversarial others. How high can such a guarantee be, and what type of mechanism achieves it? In the n-person probabilistic voting/bargaining model with p deterministic...

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Institutional vulnerability, breakdown of trust : a model of social unrest In Chile

Velasco, Andrés; Funk, Robert - 2024

This paper revisits the standard explanations of the violent Chilean protests of late 2019, and in particular their exclusive focus on the role of inequality, which in fact had been falling prior to the emergence of unrest. Instead, we suggest that blame may lie in a crisis of trust in...

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Determinants of labour force migration : evidence from the Western Balkans

Gara, Atdhetar; Fetai, Besnik - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 33 (2024) 2, pp. 244-260

This paper empirically analyses the determining factors of the growth in the migration rate in the countries of the Western Balkans. The analysis is carried out with panel data over 17 years from 2005 to 2021. The purpose of this paper is to analyse social variables such as unemployment and...

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Two-valued strongly group strategy-proof social choice functions

De Simone, Anna; Bhaskara Rao, K. P. S. - In: Games 15 (2024) 6, pp. 1-9

We present simple and direct arguments to characterize strongly group strategy-proof social choice functions whose range is of cardinality two. The underlying society is of arbitrary cardinality, and agents can be indifferent among alternatives.

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Agendas in legislative decision-making

Horan, Sean - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 1, pp. 235-274

Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on two formats, the so-called Euro-Latin and Anglo-American agendas. In the current paper, I introduce a broad class of agendas whose defining structural features,...

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