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Strategic Campaigns and Redistributive Politics

Schultz, Christian - CESifo - 2003

The paper investigates strategic campaigning in a model of redistributive politics in a society with many groups and two parties. Campaigns are informative, and parties can target campaigns to different groups. Voters are uncertain about whether parties fabor special groups. The parties will...

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Fractionalization and the Size of Government

Lind, Jo Thori - CESifo - 2003

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …

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Trade and the Political Economy of Redistribution

Vannoorenberghe, Gonzague; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013

, giving rise to a trade-off between redistribution and the inefficiency of the labor allocation. We compare two environments … lower nominal value in open economies, the actual extent of redistribution in equilibrium is larger in the open than in the …

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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive

Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008

In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - CESifo - 2015

-Nazi radio broadcast following Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor. During the consolidation of dictatorship, radio …

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Roots of Autocracy

Galor, Oded - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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Mine, Ours and Yours? Unintended Framing Effects in Dictator Games

Bergh, Andreas - 2018

This paper reports results from a classroom dictator game comparing the effects of three different sets of standard instructions. The results show that seemingly small differences in instructions induce fundamentally different perceptions regarding entitlement. Behavior is affected accordingly,...

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Gender Effects in Dictator Game Giving : Women Favour Female Recipients

Baltrusch, Maximilian - 2018

Allowing for a free choice of the recipient's gender in a dictator game (N = 508), we find that women show a substantial gender biased towards females. Adding a charity recipient to the possible choices, the charity becomes the primary recipient and overall transfers increase. Yet, conditioning...

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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)

Caruso, Raul - 2014

We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...

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Regime Spoiler or Regime Pawn : The Military and Distributional Conflict in Non-Democracies

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014

I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the citizens. In the event of a revolt by the citizens, the military may choose to support the autocrat to crush the revolt or play a passive role. The autocrat determines the...

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