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Between-Group Contests Over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017

We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each …-group population. Any unilateral increase in fragmentation within a group reduces conflict and makes its opponent better off. The …

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Voting as a War of Attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Bakshi, Dripto - 2015

We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups … contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The contest yields the per-period relative influence over institutions, which … partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …

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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

contest designer. If the contest can be unfair (structural discrimination is allowed), then the designer's payoff under the …

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How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence : Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict

Leṿenṭal, ʿAmit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2022

States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...

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Terrorism and Voting Behavior : Evidence from the United States

Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021

This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2016 and exploit the inherent randomness of the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first...

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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...

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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017

This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...

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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan - 2018

analyses point to the mediating effect of risk perception: individuals who exhibit stronger emotional responses to terror …

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...

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