The Economics of Secession

Bookman, Milica Z.

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“…Although initially, the steps taken in the two federations of Czechoslovakia were similar, in 1992 a peaceful secession process was designed by the two main community leaders to create two separate countries in 1993. The events of 1989 and 1992 can be regarded as a "double bang", a rare case in history where two large forces coincided [11].…”

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“…However, from other studies [7] one can expect significant heterogeneity on the effect of gender and socio-economic status [9,10] This paper draws on evidence from Czechoslovakia, a country that was in the Soviet bloc, but was broken up in the following few years, after the transition to democracy. Thus, it gave rise to a rare case in history where two large liberalisation forces coincided, often referred to as a "double bang" [11]. A country's break up offers an opportunity to reshape each country's institutions, reduce conflict, and more generally improve institutional quality [12,13].…”

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Transitions that Matter? Czechoslovakia’s Break up and Human Stature

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Kossarova

2019

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Changes in a population's average stature are virtuous pointers of wellbeing which are sensitive to improvements in psychosocial environments during childhood. A major structural change that could have altered an environment during childhood is the transition from communist to a liberal democracy, and, more specifically, the meltdown of the Soviet bloc provides for a quasi-natural experiment. This paper examines the trends in heights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia before and after the transition and the subsequent break-up of the Czechoslovakian federation. We find that one additional year of exposure to a liberal democracy while growing up is associated with an increasing population stature of 0.28 cm among Slovaks and 0.15 cm among Czechs. We only find changes in stature among men who are more sensitive to environmental stress, especially at the lower end of the current socio-economic status. Results are robust to alternative datasets and measures of democracy.

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Transitions that Matter? Czechoslovakia’s Break up and Human Stature

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Kossarova

2019

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“…I tak np. Milica Zarkovic Bookman w pracy The Economics of Secession proponuje by rozróżnić separatyzm etniczny, który dąży do posiadania przez grupę autonomii, od secesji, która zakłada stworzenie niezależnego państwa (Bookman 1993). Natomiast Naimul Abedin zauważając, że wiele zjawisk politycznych, które obserwatorzy zaliczają do separatyzmów w istocie nimi nie jest twierdzi, że nie można utożsamiać dążenia do autonomii z separatyzmem.…”

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W poszukiwaniu rusińskiego separatyzmu

Michna

2019

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W poszukiwaniu rusińskiego separatyzmuРезуме Сепаратизм то так соспільне явиско, як і аналітычна катеґория, яку ся стосує в соспільных науках до аналізы барз ріжного тыпу явиск. В простій бесіді часто хоснуваный єст до назначаня і понижаня еманципацийных аспіраций груп, якы борют ся о узнаня. О тым ци еманципацийны аспірациі даной етнічной/ народовой групы сут, ци не сут уважаны за сепаратизм, рішат не лем спосіб єй дефініюваня, але тіж місце, з якого опис єст доконуваный. Сес текст то проба пізріня на процес еманципациі Русинів з Підкарпатской Руси з двох перспектыв: ріжных способів підходу до того зложеного явиска в шыроко пониманых соспільных науках, як тіж внутрігруповой -самых участників того процесу -русиньскых актывістів з Підкарпатской Руси. Abstract In Search of Rusyn SeparatismSeparatism is both a social phenomenon and a political category employed in analysis of diverse types of phenomena by social sciences. Colloquially it is often used to label and deprecate emancipating aspirations of groups that strive for recognition. Whether such aspirations of a given ethnic/national group are, or are not, considered separatism depends on the accepted definition of the term as well as the vantage point assumed in description. This paper attempts to view the process of emancipation of Trans-Carpathian Rusyns from two perspectives: various ways in which this complex

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“…There exist numerous other examples as well. Bookman (1993) mentions Bougainville, Slovakia, and Quebec as examples of "the use of economic policy as a tool for the appeasement of subnational regions with active secessionist movements", while Gurr (2000) claims that many states have abandoned strategies of assimilation and control in favor of policies of pluralism and accommodation, in dealing with politically active ethnic groups. In a referendum in Western Australia in 1933, two-thirds of the population supported independence.…”

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Secessions and Political Extremism: Why Regional Referenda Do Not Solve the Problem

Olofsgård

2004

Journal of the European Economic Association

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This paper shows that an uninformed player can increase his bargaining power by committing to receive information from an expert more skeptical to cooperation. This general idea is applied to a model in which a regional political leader (the expert) influences voting in a referendum on independence by strategically disseminating information about the consequences of separation. I show that this motivates a moderate electorate to appoint a more extreme leader, to receive biased information that increases their bargaining power over the gains of staying unified. However, a trade‐off between bargaining power and precision of information causes inefficient outcomes in equilibrium. (JEL: C73, D72, D82, H77)

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The Economics of Secession

Cited by 33 publications

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Transitions that Matter? Czechoslovakia’s Break up and Human Stature

Transitions that Matter? Czechoslovakia’s Break up and Human Stature

W poszukiwaniu rusińskiego separatyzmu

Secessions and Political Extremism: Why Regional Referenda Do Not Solve the Problem

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