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In a political conflict like Kashmir, human loss is the first tragedy coupled with the economic damage to the oppressed … state government admitted that the conflict has condensed per capita Gross Domestic Product growth, Foreign Domestic … local businesses, and in some cases even closures. The cost of the Kashmir conflict is difficult to ascertain due to limited …
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This paper analyzes a dynamic lobbying model in which two antagonistic lobbies compete with each other for a prize over two time periods that are linked through status quo bias. The attacker has to decide whether to attempt an attack on the status quo already in the first period or whether to...
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conflict onto the American people. In addition to reviewing the main themes of War and Taxes, this essay argues that the …
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The category of conflict encompasses not only war but also crime, litigation, strikes and lockouts, and redistributive … politics. Exchange theory and conflict theory constitute two coequal branches of economic analysis, the first based upon … conflict are reviewed. Preferences, opportunities, and perceptions are shown to determine the choice between conflict and …
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This paper examines the causes of conflict in Burundi and discusses strategies for building peace. The analysis of the …, because unequal distribution of resources generates conflict, maintaining a system based on inequality is difficult because it …
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We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
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