The first section of this technical appendix details the order of operations within the model, the second the method of network construction and parameterization, and the third the methodology by which results given in the paper were derived. The fourth section details additional analysis of the role of the updating rate, λ, absent a complex network. The fifth section does the same for core beh...

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This appendix contains six sections. The first section details and provides further justification for the parameters of the model, including selection into media. It also specifies the order of operations within the model. The second details the method of network construction and parameterization. The third lays out and justifies the methodology by which results given in the paper were derived....

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We study secessionist conflict driven by cultural and economic motives in a political union of two regions, and analyze under what conditions partial decentralization may serve as a conflict-mitigating strategy. While the probability of a successful secession is increasing in heterogeneity, it is increasing in interregional income inequality if and only if the union is socially efficient to sta...

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Jay Russo for helpful comments. This paper has benefited from comments by Detlof von Winterfeldt, Departmental Editor, and three anonymous referees. 3 This article introduces a technique for improving preference assessment by reducing the influence of context on preferential choices. We propose that a decision maker who is exposed to relevant attribute levels will form spontaneous valuations, w...

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