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Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participation, including voting and organizing....

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Endogenous Property Rights

Sonin, Konstantin; Diermeier, Daniel; Egorov, Georgy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

It is often argued that additional checks and balances provide economic agents with better protection from expropriation of their wealth or productive capital. We demonstrate that in a dynamic political economy model this intuition may be flawed. Surprisingly, increasing the number of veto...

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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

Levine, David; Modica, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence …

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Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model

Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially … a sequence of bad actions originated. Assuming that both sides are not extremists, spirals of distrust and conflict get … this mechanism can be useful in interpreting cycles of ethnic conflict and international war, and how it also emerges in …

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Foreign Influence and Welfare

Antras, Pol; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

-country voting model of electoral competition, where we allow the incumbent party in each country to take costly actions that …

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes …

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Can Public Discussion Enhance Program Ownership?

Drazen, Allan; Isard, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

We use the concepts of deliberative democracy from political science and cheap talk from economics to develop a better understanding of how public discussion can contribute to building and demonstrating ownership of IMF programs and hence to program success. We argue that ownership is more...

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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David; Klor, Esteban F.; Paserman, M. Daniele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

casella, alessandra; Turban, Sébastien; Wawro, Gregory J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

Hatfield, John William; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of …. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We …

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