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Shadmehr, Mehdi and Bernhardt, Dan (2022) Transparency and stability. Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 17 (1). pp. 121-139. doi:10.1561/100.00019195
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00019195
Abstract
We revisit the theory that Hollyer, Rosendorff, and Vreeland use in their research program on transparency and political stability. We show that in a representative citizen setting and in their multi-citizen model, more transparency increases the likelihood of revolution if this likelihood is sufficiently small, but reduces the likelihood of revolution if it is sufficiently large. Rather than coordination concerns, the mechanism driving this result reflects the logic of “gambling for resurrection”: when you’re ahead, don’t give information, but when you’re behind, gamble for resurrection by providing more information. Their model suggests that protest risk drives transparency, not the converse: regimes facing a low likelihood of revolution should reduce transparency, while those facing a high likelihood of revolution should raise transparency, generating a positive correlation between transparency and instability. Moreover, we show that in Hollyer et al.’s core models, a citizen’s net payoff from revolting does not depend on either the citizen’s private economic well-being, or the public economic situation: economic interest, either self-interest or sociotropic interest, is not itself an incentive to protest. Rather, the model is a sunspot game, with economic data playing the role of sunspots, which, by assumption, act as focal points for coordination.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Transparency in government, Political stability | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Now Publishers Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1554-0626 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 24 January 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 121-139 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1561/100.00019195 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | The final publication is available from now publishers via http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/100.00019195 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | © 2021 M. Shadmehr and D. Bernhardt | ||||||||
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