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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict
Krieger, Tim - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984723
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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030325
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Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights
Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2010
For a country fractionalized in competing factions, each owning part of the stock of natural exhaustible resources, or with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We allow property rights to improve as the country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583632
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - CESifo - 2003
This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196186
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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
Arezki, Rabah; Brückner, Markus - CESifo - 2011
This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371349
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Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2012
polarization of the electorate into changes in the distribution of voter ideal positions and consequences of elite polarization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651861
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The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control
Aytimur, R. Emre; Boukouras, Aristotelis; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2012
We examine the two-candidate equilibria of the citizen-candidate model when the implemented policy arises from a compromise between the government and an unelected external power. We show that the equilibria of this model differ significantly from the original: the distance between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561495
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Strategic Restraint in Contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2000
competition over endogenously determined policies induces strategic restraint that reduces polarization and, in turn, wasteful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181372
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Political Polarization and the Electoral Effects of Media Bias
Bernhardt, Dan; Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - CESifo - 2006
Many political commentators diagnose an increasing polarization of the U.S. electorate into two opposing camps. However … position of the median voter does not change. We show that media bias provides a mechanism through which political polarization … electoral outcomes. We show that polarization increases the profitability of slanting news, thereby raising the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405957
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Voting under the Threat of Secession: Accommodation vs. Repression
Anesi, Vincent; Donder, Philippe De - CESifo - 2011
We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government’s type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021235