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Riot rewards? Study of BJP's electoral performance and Hindu Muslim riots
Ticku, Rohit - 2015
Do incidents of ethnic polarization influence voter behavior? I address this question through the case study of India, the world's largest functional democracy. Specifically, I test whether prior events of Hindu-Muslim riots electorally benefit Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), a prominent Hindu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381212
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Internal versus External Rent-Seeking with In-Group Inequality and Public Good Provision
Bakshi, Dripto; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2021
We examine how inequality in the endowment of secure wealth, mediated through voluntary public good provision, affects rent-seeking within and between groups. We model a scenario where two communities, each internally differentiated into rich, intermediate and poor segments, contest one another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882447
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"Living" wage, class conflict and ethnic strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2008
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and 'ethnic' conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288526
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A Rent-Seeking Perspective on Imperial Peace
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024
We model a rent-seeking contest among two 'identity ideologues', differentially located along a uni …-dimensional identity continuum, and a 'mercenary', who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity …-relevant good ('religion') and an identity-irrelevant good ('money'). The mercenary values only money, the ideologues value both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096929
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A rent-seeking perspective on imperial peace
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2024
We model a rent-seeking contest among two 'identity ideologues', differentially located along a uni …-dimensional identity continuum, and a 'mercenary', who can choose any location in-between. The contest jointly awards an identity …-relevant good ('religion') and an identity-irrelevant good ('money'). The mercenary values only money, the ideologues value both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015124978
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Voting in Kenya: Putting Ethnicity in Perspective
Kimenyi, Mwangi Samson; Bratton, Michael - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008
"ethnics" engaging in identity voting and "non-ethnics" giving more weight to interests and issues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800259
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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife
Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict among workers. We model a two-dimensional contest, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233836
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An Institutional Remedy for Ethnic Patronage Politics
Durant, Thomas Clark; Weintraub, Michael - 2015
When the difference between winning and losing elections is large, elites have incentives to use ethnicity to control access to spoils, mobilizing some citizens and excluding others. This paper presents a new electoral mechanism, the turn-taking institution, that could move states away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182778
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Riot rewards? : study of BJP's electoral performance and Hindu Muslim riots
Ticku, Rohit - 2015
Do incidents of ethnic polarization influence voter behavior? I address this question through the case study of India, the world's largest functional democracy. Specifically, I test whether prior events of Hindu-Muslim riots electorally benefit Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), a prominent Hindu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347162