A nationwide reform that reduced access to public services in municipalities with fewer than 5,000 residents is linked to rising support for far‑right parties. The analysis asks whether cutting local services helps explain the geographic concentration of far‑right votes and probes the mechanisms behind that shift.
This study asks whether localized economic hardship affects civilians’ willingness to support peace-building measures—specifically reintegrating former combatants. Using individual-level survey responses about support for Taliban reintegration and exploiting variation from the 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake, the authors examine whether damage to local economic sectors changed civilians’ attitudes toward reintegration. The contribution is a focused test of how sectoral economic impacts of a sudden shock map onto public support for conflict cessation.
This paper asks why ethnic voting varies across localities and proposes a theory that local ethnic geography increases ethnic voting where minority-group voters fear intimidation from majority-group neighbors. The authors test this mechanism using Afrobarometer survey data for Ghana, combined with geocoded survey locations and demographic data, and compare intimidation beliefs against an alternative mechanism based on local public goods provision.