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Voting under the threat of secession : accommodation vs. repression
Anesi, Vincent; De Donder, Philippe - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206634
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Voting under the threat of secession : accommodation vs. repression
Anesi, Vincent; De Donder, Philippe - 2011
measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static analysis of the equilibrium policy location and of the secession …-regional heterogeneity of preferences. -- majority voting ; secession risk ; cultural distinctiveness ; conflict ; overlapping regional …We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127585
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Voting Under the Threat of Secession : Accommodation vs. Repression
Anesi, Vincent - 2011
measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static analysis of the equilibrium policy location and of the secession …We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show … risk with respect to the cultural distinctiveness of the two regions, the relative weight attached by voters to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124688
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Secessionism and minority protection in an uncertain world
Anesi, Vincent - 2010
about the costs of secession for her community. This paper shows that this uncertainty is a central cause of secession … minority leader, signaling incentives make secession the unique equilibrium outcome, whether mutually advantageous compromises … their borders. -- Constitutional commitment ; secession ; signaling ; regional redistribution …
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Secessionism and minority protection in an uncertain world
Anesi, Vincent - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 1/2, pp. 53-61
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The political economy of regionalism
Goyal, Sanjeev; Staal, Klaas - 2000
We examine the incentives of regions in a country to unite or toseparate. We find that smaller regions have greater incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union generates excessiveincentives to separate. This leads us...
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Regional resources and democratic secessionism
Gehring, Kai; Schneider, Stephan A. - 2018
Although regional resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resource value and inter-regional transfers in a model on the optimal size of nations, and show that...
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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting
De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014
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Politically sustainable probabilistic minority targeting
De Donder, Philippe; Peluso, Eugenio - 2014
We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting, however small the minority targeted, when the probability to receive the transfer is decreasing and concave in income. We apply our framework to the French social housing program and obtain that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384383
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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023
Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are chosen under the veil of ignorance and whether there are...
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