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Working Paper
22 January 2021
Secession and Social Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
Published by: UNU-WIDER
Does secessionism lead to social polarisation? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarisation, a...
Working Paper
26 October 2020
Roots of dissent: Trade liberalisation and the rise of populism in Brazil
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
Working Paper
12 October 2020
On the Political and Social Consequences of Economic Inequality: Civic Engagement in Colombia
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists...
Working Paper
12 October 2020
Winning or Buying Hearts and Minds?: Cash Transfers and Political Attitudes in Pakistan
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally...
Working Paper
12 October 2020
Riots and Social Capital in Urban India
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset...
Working Paper
12 October 2020
Africa’s Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the...
Working Paper
12 October 2020
Trust in the Time of Corona
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic...
Journal Article
9 October 2020
The Double Logic of Internal Purges: New Evidence from Francoist Spain
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
States often engage in internal purges to eliminate political dissidents within their own ranks. However, partly because of the absence...
Project
Life with Corona (part of the ‘Inequality and Governance in Unstable Democracies’ programme)
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC,...