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Social mobility and stability of democracy : re-evaluating De Tocqueville

Acemoglu, Daron; Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - 2016

An influential thesis often associated with De Tocqueville views social mobility as a bulwark of democracy: when … force making democracy less stable in societies with high social mobility: when the median voter expects to move up …

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Democracy with group identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … or replacement of local government because of disfunctionality. Our general contribution is to show how democracy can …

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Democracy with group identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015 - 25 March-2015 final

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Divide and Rule : How Political Elites Polarize Society

Wang, Yikai; Alder, Simon - 2021

We propose a theory of endogenous polarization where a political elite strategically initiates conflicts between groups …

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Taxation in Autocracies : When Is Super-Encompassing Interest Preserved?

Wang, Yijiang - 2016

A theory is introduced to systematically explain autocracies' diverse experiences with taxation. State power relative … benevolent featuring respectively tax tyranny, tax incompetency, tax-induced violence and tax harmony. The theory informs …

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - 2023

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...

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Constitutional Choice in Ancient Athens : The Rationality of Selection to Office by Lot

Tridimas, George - 2011

Contrary to modern democracies ancient Athens appointed large numbers of government officers by lot. After describing the Athenian arrangements, the paper reviews the literature on the choice between election and lot focusing on representativeness of the population, distributive justice,...

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Democracy of 'Taxation-Redistribution' and Peacetime Budget Deficit

Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Shestakov, Daniel; Zhavoronkov, … - 2016

The link between an introduction of the universal suffrage and the growth of government spending has been established in some literature (Meltzer, Richard, 1981, Aidt et al., 2006, Funk and Guthmann, 2006). In this article we try to identify a more detailed mechanism behind that link. So, we...

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War and Democracy

Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2021

This paper presents a general equilibrium model of conflict based on a world populated by representative democracies. At the individual state level, when information regarding a leader?s ability to defend the state against unavoidable conflict is valuable to voters, an incumbent leader seeking...

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The roots of Islamist armed struggle, 1968 - 2007 : conference paper

Meierrieks, Daniel; Krieger, Tim - 2014

This contribution studies the influence of poor politico-economic factors, unfavorable demographic conditions, state failure, modernization, secularization, globalization and the perceived dependency of the Islamic world from the West on the onset of armed Islamist activity for 155 countries...

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