Rebellion, repression and welfare

I develop a dynamic model of social conflict whereby manifest grievances of the poor generate the incentive of taking over political power violently. Rebellion can be an equilibrium outcome depending on the level of preexisting inequality between the poor and the ruling elite, the relative military...

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2010
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Universidad del Rosario
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Procesos sociales
Rebellion
Repression
Inequality
Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Violencia política
Pobreza
Solución de conflictos
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spelling Rebellion, repression and welfareProcesos socialesRebellionRepressionInequalityMarkov Perfect EquilibriumViolencia políticaPobrezaSolución de conflictosI develop a dynamic model of social conflict whereby manifest grievances of the poor generate the incentive of taking over political power violently. Rebellion can be an equilibrium outcome depending on the level of preexisting inequality between the poor and the ruling elite, the relative military capabilities of the two groups and the destructiveness of conflict. Once a technology of repression is introduced, widespread fear reduces the parameter space for which rebellion is an equilibrium outcome. However, I show that repression driven peace comes at a cost as it produces a welfare loss to society.Universidad del RosarioFacultad de Economía2010-042015-09-19T18:47:55Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_804230 páginasRecurso electrónicoapplication/pdfDocumentohttps://doi.org/10.48713/10336_10839 http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/10839instname:Universidad del Rosarioinstname:Universidad del Rosarioreponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspahttps://ideas.repec.org/p/col/000092/006906.htmlhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Vargas Duque, Juan Fernandooai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/108392019-09-19T07:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Rebellion, repression and welfare
title Rebellion, repression and welfare
spellingShingle Rebellion, repression and welfare
Procesos sociales
Rebellion
Repression
Inequality
Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Violencia política
Pobreza
Solución de conflictos
title_short Rebellion, repression and welfare
title_full Rebellion, repression and welfare
title_fullStr Rebellion, repression and welfare
title_full_unstemmed Rebellion, repression and welfare
title_sort Rebellion, repression and welfare
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Procesos sociales
Rebellion
Repression
Inequality
Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Violencia política
Pobreza
Solución de conflictos
topic Procesos sociales
Rebellion
Repression
Inequality
Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Violencia política
Pobreza
Solución de conflictos
description I develop a dynamic model of social conflict whereby manifest grievances of the poor generate the incentive of taking over political power violently. Rebellion can be an equilibrium outcome depending on the level of preexisting inequality between the poor and the ruling elite, the relative military capabilities of the two groups and the destructiveness of conflict. Once a technology of repression is introduced, widespread fear reduces the parameter space for which rebellion is an equilibrium outcome. However, I show that repression driven peace comes at a cost as it produces a welfare loss to society.
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