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Oscar Volij - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Formation of Nations in a Welfare-State Minded World
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2000
    Co-Authors: Nir Dagan, Oscar Volij
    Abstract:

    We model the endogenous Formation of Nations in a world economy where Nations apply redistributive policies. We show that people's preference for stronger redistributive policies may lead to greater inequality in the world's distribution of income as a result of rich individuals tending to form their own Nations. By the same token, stable economic integration occurs only when redistributive policies are not too strong.

Julie Skurski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1991
    Co-Authors: Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski
    Abstract:

    Although political violence has played a central part in the Formation of Nations, its historical constitution and its role in representing Nations havereceived scant attention. All too frequently the explanation of violence is equated with the identification of its causes, its form is accounted for by its function, and its function is seen in instrumental terms; violence is reduced to a practical tool used by opposing social actors in pursuit of conflicting ends. Whether treated as a cause, function, or instrument, violence is generally assumed rather than examined in its concreteness. Little attention is paid to its specific manifestations, to the way its effects are inseparably related to the means through which it is exerted, and to the meanings that inform its deployment and interpretation. In contrast, typological approaches that postulate a correspondence between types of societies and forms of violence often recognize the opacity of violence yet lose sight of the historical depth and specificity of its manifestations.

Nir Dagan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Formation of Nations in a Welfare-State Minded World
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2000
    Co-Authors: Nir Dagan, Oscar Volij
    Abstract:

    We model the endogenous Formation of Nations in a world economy where Nations apply redistributive policies. We show that people's preference for stronger redistributive policies may lead to greater inequality in the world's distribution of income as a result of rich individuals tending to form their own Nations. By the same token, stable economic integration occurs only when redistributive policies are not too strong.

Holm Sundhaussen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Forced Ethnic Migration Forced Ethnic Migration
    2010
    Co-Authors: Holm Sundhaussen
    Abstract:

    Movements of peoples due to nationality and ethnicity occurred on an unprecedented scale over the course of the 20th century during the Formation of Nations and the ethnic definition of nation states in the territories of the former multiethnic empires of Europe, specifically, in Central, South-eastern and Eastern Europe. Forced relocation, flight and expulsion are outlined using the example of four complexes defined in space and time. The numerically most extensive population shifts were initiated by National Socialist expansion policies and triggered a spiral of force and violence to which eventually large parts of the German population also fell victim. The motives and practices of forced migrations only differ in degree and detail. The question of who initiated the spiral of violence and, consequently, created an extremely polarized order that neither perpetrators nor victims could (or would) withdraw from is historically significant.

Fernando Coronil - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dismembering and Remembering the Nation: The Semantics of Political Violence in Venezuela
    Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1991
    Co-Authors: Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski
    Abstract:

    Although political violence has played a central part in the Formation of Nations, its historical constitution and its role in representing Nations havereceived scant attention. All too frequently the explanation of violence is equated with the identification of its causes, its form is accounted for by its function, and its function is seen in instrumental terms; violence is reduced to a practical tool used by opposing social actors in pursuit of conflicting ends. Whether treated as a cause, function, or instrument, violence is generally assumed rather than examined in its concreteness. Little attention is paid to its specific manifestations, to the way its effects are inseparably related to the means through which it is exerted, and to the meanings that inform its deployment and interpretation. In contrast, typological approaches that postulate a correspondence between types of societies and forms of violence often recognize the opacity of violence yet lose sight of the historical depth and specificity of its manifestations.