TY - GEN A1 - Schwuchow, Sören C. A1 - Tridimas, George T1 - The political economy of Solon’s law against neutrality in civil wars T2 - Public Choice N2 - In 594 BCE, the Athenian lawgiver Solon, called upon to resolve a deepening social crisis, introduced a new constitution and mandated that in civil conflicts, no citizen is to remain apathetic and must take sides. Because the law seemed to support strife, it presents a puzzle. The paper offers a political economy rationale for Solon’s law against neutrality, modeling social conflict as a rent-seeking competition. We divide society into three groups, a hereditary aristocracy, which monopolized power before the Solonian constitution, a rival wealth-based commercial elite, called the new Solonian elite, and the poor, who are enfranchised only partly. We then identify the conditions under which the third group is better off by allying with one of the other groups, protecting the Solonian constitution. In our framework, Solon’s ban on neutrality is an attempt to change the payoffs from violent redistributions of rents, so that conflict is avoided. Accordingly, the ban should not only impede excessive rent seeking, but also prevent the exclusion of any social group. KW - Ancient Athens KW - Solon KW - Political non-neutrality KW - Rent seeking KW - Intra-elite competition KW - Political apathy KW - Civil war KW - Inclusive institutions Y1 - 2022 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-022-00980-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-022-00980-8 SN - 1573-7101 VL - 192 IS - 3-4 SP - 249 EP - 272 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Bewährt sich die Schuldenbremse? Eine Diskussion aus polit-ökonomischer Perspektive T2 - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium (WiSt) Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.15358/0340-1650-2022-10-24 SN - 0340-1650 VL - 51 IS - 10 SP - 24 EP - 29 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Unübersichtlich, widersprüchlich, wenig zielgerichtet: Entlastungspakete ohne Gesamtkonzept T2 - ifo Schnelldienst Y1 - 2022 SN - 2199-4455 VL - 75 IS - 11 SP - 10 EP - 13 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan ED - Mause, Karsten ED - Polk, Andreas T1 - Lobbyismus aus der Perspektive der verhaltensökonomischen Theorie der Politik T2 - Handbuch Lobbyismus Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-658-32324-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32324-0_5-1 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Inflation: ein ordnungspolitischer Zwischenruf Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-98574-099-4 PB - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung CY - Sankt Augustin ; Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Markwardt, Gunther A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan A1 - Titze, Mirko A1 - Zundel, Stefan T1 - Umsetzung der Hilfen für die Flankierung des Kohleausstiegs in der brandenburgischen Lausitz: eine Zwischenbilanz T2 - ifo Dresden berichtet Y1 - 2022 SN - 0945-5922 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 12 EP - 18 ER -