Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46289 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3458
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static analysis of the equilibrium policy location and of the secession risk with respect to the cultural distinctiveness of the two regions, the relative weight attached by voters to economic factors, the relative size of the minority region, the probability that a secession attempt is successful, and the intra-regional heterogeneity of preferences.
Subjects: 
majority voting
secession risk
cultural distinctiveness
conflict
overlapping regional preferences
JEL: 
D72
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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