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In-group favouritism and out-group discimination in naturally occurring groups
Harris, Donna; Abbink, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
against supporters of the rival party.  Despite a strong anti-corruption stance of the yellow-shirt movement members of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004284
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Demographic transition and political stability: Does corruption matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096548
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Demographic Transition and Political Stability: Does Corruption Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - CESifo - 2014
hypothesize that corruption matters in this nexus. Using panel data covering the period of 2002–2012 for more than 150 countries … total working age population (15-64 years old) and corruption on political stability. This finding is robust, controlling … between corruption and the youth population remains robust when we control for the persistency of political stability and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103400
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Oil rents, corruption, and state stability: Evidence from panel data regressions
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - In: European Economic Review 55 (2011) 7, pp. 955-963
We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation … increase in oil rents significantly increases corruption, significantly deteriorates political rights while at the same time … redistribution and conflict. We support our argument documenting that there is a significant effect of oil rents on corruption in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048566
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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011
We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub …-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is … suggest that the mechanisms through which resource rents affect corruption cannot be separated from political systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294093
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Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability: Evidence from Panel Data Regressions
arezki, rabah; Brückner, Markus - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 2011
We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation … increase in oil rents significantly increases corruption, significantly deteriorates political rights while at the same time … redistribution and conflict. We support our argument documenting that there is a significant effect of oil rents on corruption in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788564
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Economia de război: concepte, evoluţie şi instrumente
Alexandru, Georgescu - In: Revista OEconomica (2012) 03
Throughout human history, polities have found it necessary to devote resources towards maintaining security from other polities or to prosecute a war against them. This paper explores the evolution of the war economy, as well as the circumstances which mandated and instruments which allowed the...
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Trade, conflicts and political integration : explaining the heterogeneity of regional trade agreements.
Vicard, Vincent - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008
This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510590
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Deterrence, preemption and panic: A Common-enemy problem of terrorism
Das, Satya P.; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy - Indian Statistical Institute - 2008
We develop a game-theoretic analysis of terrorism that examines the interaction between a terrorist organization and multiple target countries, and considers both pre-emption and deterrence as counterterrorist policies. The damage from terror includes not only the material cost of fatality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979343
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The Fragility of the Liberal Peace Export to South Sudan: Formal Education Access as a Basis of a Liberal Peace Project
Pemunta, Ngambouk Vitalis; Nkongho, Eno-Akpa Rene - In: Journal of Human Security 10 (2014) 1, pp. 59-75
This study examines the disjuncture between the policy transposition of the Liberal Peace Project (LPP) in South Sudan from the country's local context. It underlines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare services reinforces political exclusion and exacerbates poor civic...
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