This paper analyses the case when the political struggle not is channeled through policy choices, but through what information to adopt. The paper presents a simple model to analyze collective decisions of adopting new information when different parties' payoffs are contingent upon the new information. In equilibrium we demonstrate that the adopted information is biased towards “political corre...

Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? This article proposes that rebellion helps ethnic groups to overcome deprivation. I illustrate this by using a “typical” case (the Ijaw’s struggle against the Nigerian government) to demonstrate how ethnic rebellion...

The modern political understanding defines politics only within the boundaries of a society immanent to state, such as parliament and parties. Within framework this understanding, it is discussed whether education included in field. In direction, although formal planned under control powers, they are trying define outside field turn into unilateral hegemony device. As limited definition politic...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

While this rationalisation is in some respects accurate, it may be, however, that these commonly stated reasons mask a far more complex objective—in other words there is far more than ‘popularity,’ ‘exoticism,’ and ‘simplicity’ at stake. Historically, the relationships between England and the nations of the so-called ‘Celtic Fringe’—Scotland, Ireland and Wales—have often been hostile and are st...

This paper studies the effects of asymmetries in re-election probabilities across parties on public policy and its subsequent propagation to the economy. The struggle between opposing groups–that disagree on the composition of public consumption–results in governments being endogenously short-sighted: Systematic under investment in infrastructure and overspending on public goods arise, as resou...