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classify. Existing studies suggest that the common denominator of these protesters is primarily the lack of political trust …. Therefore, these new protest movements offer favorable conditions for investigating the relationship between political trust and … trust in the core institutions of representative democracy in Germany and that political distrust increases the readiness …
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Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the...
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of the relevant events. We conduct trust game experiments where the amount sent back by the second player (trustee) is … ; trust game ; instrumental variables ; belief elicitation …
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The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, protestors from across the country were transported to Washington, D.C. in 6 separate bus caravans, each of which made stops en route to rest,...
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Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...
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This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
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issues per se. Given these characteristics of current community-based conflict, I explore a number of alternatives to current … consent, show potential to productively address state-society conflict on projects, while others - like recent Congressional … efforts to speed licensing - are only likely to displace conflict from institutional to non-institutional processes. …
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This paper examines how network ties between local social leaders influenced the diffusion of mass protests in an autocracy. We focus on the Protestant Church and the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany. To quantify the role of leader networks in protest diffusion, we compile biographical...
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