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Political salience and regime resilience

  • We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents’ expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives, and we show that comparative statics in salience characterize stability. As main insight, when regime sanctions are weak, increases from low to middling salience can pose the greatest threat to regimes – ever smaller shocks suffice to drastically escalate attacks. Our results speak to the charged debates about democracy, by identifying conditions under which heightened interest in political decision-making can pose a threat to democracy in and of itself.

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Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Author(s):Sebastian Schweighofer-KodritschORCiD, Steffen Huck, Macartan Humphreys
Parent Title (English):Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers (31)
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Number pages:21
Related URL:https://berlinschoolofeconomics.de/insights/discussion-papers
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-5208
Release Date:2023/12/15
Tag:Economics; democracy; political conflict; salience; sanctions
Edition:No. 31
Hertie School Research:BerlinSchoolOfEcon_Discussion_Papers
Licence of document (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International
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