Can external threats strengthen group identity? A growing body of research in economics
emphasises the importance of cultural attributes such as identity for trust and cooperation …

We study how more negative historical exposure to the actions of nation-states—like war,
occupation, and repression—affects the formation of regional identity. The quasi-exogenous …

Can secessionism be a basis for affective or social polarization? Despite much research on
independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as …

This paper shows how ethnic identities may become more salient due to natural resources
extraction. We combine individual data on the strength of ethnic—relative to national …

We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict,
focusing on illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over …

This paper investigates how economic expectations shape voting intentions in a
hypothetical independence referendum in Greenland, a self-governing region of the …

While fossil fuels are a well‐researched element of nationalist discourse, the relationship
between nationalism and renewable energy has not yet been adequately explored. We …

The origins of voter preferences about the vertical distribution of political power in federal
systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher …

The establishment of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) is one of the
important issues in the academic debate on a viable constitution for the European Monetary …

Popular and scientific contributions often call for increased regional decision-making power
to manage secessionist conflict, assuming that fiscally federalized countries are less prone …