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The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages
Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …
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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority
Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose and apply a simple empirical strategy based on survey data to address that longstanding issue. Differently from previous evaluations of the median-voter theory, ours does not assume that voters are guided by...
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Contractual Democracy
Gersbach, Hans - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Although they would yield social benefits, some political projects may not be implemented in democracies. Prominent examples are the reform of European labour markets, the reduction of government debt or the reduction of greenhouse gases. We suggest introducing political contracts to make...
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Minorities and Storable Votes
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas R; Riezman, Raymond - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desired over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...
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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662342
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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups
Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is transmitted by social proximity. Individuals engage in voluntary provision of a pure collective good that is consumed by both neighbors and non-neighbors. We show that, unlike in the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320406
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Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia
Mazzuca, Sebastián L; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
civil war and conflict, a force intensified by the brutal conflict of the War of a Thousand days between 1899 and 1902. The … the parties in the population, thus encouraging conflict. The strategic advantage of PR was that it avoided such under … origins of electoral systems and the nature of political conflict and its resolution. …
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Two is Company, N is a Crowd? Merchant Guilds and Social Capital
Dessí, Roberta; Piccolo, Salvatore - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Local merchant guilds were ubiquitous in medieval Europe, and their development was inextricably linked with the development of towns and the rise of the merchant class. We develop a theory of the emergence of local merchant guilds as an efficient mechanism to implement collusion among merchants...
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The world’s oldest fiscal watchdog: CPB’s analyses foster consensus on economic policy
Bos, Frits; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The sovereign debt problems in European countries have increased the interest in fiscal watchdogs. This paper discusses the world’s oldest fiscal watchdog, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). CPB was founded directly after World War II. It has built a reputation of...
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Democratization and Civic Capital
Guiso, Luigi; Pinotti, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
democratic republic. This pattern in the data is consistent with a simple model where individuals’ voting in political elections …
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