Political Support and Civil Disobedience: A Social Interaction Approach

Vilen Lipatov

The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2016, vol. 16, issue 2, 649-677

Abstract: People may express their opposition to government policies by adopting different measures of civil disobedience. Tax compliance is an example of an economic decision that may be affected by anti-government sentiment. Embedding the interdependence between social policies, political opposition and tax compliance in a dynamic social interaction process, we characterize a unique stable steady state of such a process. We find that social interaction may be a very important factor shaping government policies, at times reverting conventional relations between social spending and government support.

Keywords: government support; civil disobedience; social interaction; tax compliance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H26 H50 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/bejte-2015-0082

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