Explaining Diversionary Domestic Conflict: Inequality and Communitarianism in Russia

Dzutsati, Valery

doi:10.1080/17449057.2022.2031509

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“…This limits the PTP goods that a state can provide. Citizens also possess heterogeneous preferences for the provision of public goods, which are often exacerbated by ethnic and cultural differences (Alesina and Spolaore 1997;Desmet et al 2011;Dzutsati 2021Dzutsati , 2022Hentschel 2019). All else equal, a higher degree of ethnic differentiation implies more heterogeneous preferences for public goods and makes it more costly for the state to provide them to citizens efficiently, requiring a higher tax rate.…”

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Irredentism and Institutions

Hale

Siroky

2022

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Why do states engage in irredentism? Expanding on previous scholarship, this article advances a new theory with rationalist microfoundations that accounts for the incentives of both elites and citizens to support irredentism in democracies and dictatorships. Our model suggests irredentism is more likely when it enables political elites to provide a specific mix of private goods, public goods, and welfare transfers to citizens who desire them at the lowest tax rate. This leads to the prediction that irredentism is most likely in majoritarian democratic electoral systems and military dictatorships, and least likely in proportional electoral systems and single-party dictatorships. We test and find supportive evidence for these expectations using a comprehensive dataset covering all observed and potential irredentist cases from 1946 to 2014.

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