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Connecting corruption to ethnic polarization and religious fractionalization

Nissan, Edward; Naghshpour, Shahdad - In: Journal of economic studies 40 (2013) 6, pp. 763-774

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Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-national Comparison

Brown, David S.; Touchton, Michael; Whitford, Andrew - In: World Development 39 (2011) 9, pp. 1516-1529

Summary Efforts to explain corruption have increased dramatically in recent years. The interest stems from the … increasing weight economists assign to corruption when explaining economic growth. A great deal of the research focuses on how … political institutions influence perceptions of corruption. We move this debate in a new direction by addressing a previously …

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Investing in Influence: How Minority Interests Can Prevail in a Democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West’s economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal...

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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? Una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar

Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de Economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...

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Transfers in a polarized country: bridging the gap between efficiency and stability

HAIMANKO, Ori; LE BRETON, Michel; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

We consider a political economy model of country whose citizens have heterogeneous preferences for a national policy and some regions may contemplate a threat of secession. The country is efficient if its break-up into smaller countries leads to aggregate utility loss. We show that in an...

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The stability threshold and two facets of polarization

HAIMANKO, Ori; LE BRETON, Michel; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

In this paper we introduce the stability threshold that quantifies the minimal returns to size sufficient to prevent credible secession threats by regions of the country. Severity of internal tension has been linked to degree of polarization of citizens' preferences and characteristics. We show...

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The Stability Threshold and Two Facts of Polarization

Haimanko, Ori; Le Breton, Michel; Weber, Shlomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper we introduce the notion of stability threshold that quantifies the minimal returns to size sufficient to prevent credible secession threats by regions of the country. Severity of internal tension has been linked to degree of polarization of citizens' preferences and...

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Ethnic diversity, economic performance and civil wars

Valsecchi, Michele - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

We develop a conflict model linking dissipation to the distribution of the population over an arbitrary number of groups. We extend the pure contest version of the model by Esteban and Ray (1999) to include a mixed public-private good. We analyze how the level of dissipation changes as the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563378

Investing in influence : how minority interests can prevail in a democracy

Skaperdas, Stergios; Vaidya, Samarth - 2021

How can the West's economic and political polarization be explained? We argue that persuasive lobbying at various levels of government leads to systematic deviations of policies from those desired by the majority. Implemented policies diverge from the majority position despite centripetal forces...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649786

RICH STATES, POOR STATES: CONVERGENCE AND POLARISATION IN INDIA

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

The distribution dynamics of incomes across Indian states are examined us-ing the entire income distribution rather than using standard regression ap-proaches.The period 1965 to 1997 exhibits twin-peaked dynamics: there aretwo income convergence clubs at 50% and 125% of the national...

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