Can extremism reduce conflict?

Dripto Bakshi and Indraneel Dasgupta ()

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 215, issue C

Abstract: We model internal and external rent-seeking between groups. When within-group polarization increases, positive consumption externalities between intra-group factions contract. Between and within-group rent-seeking may, nonetheless, decline. Greater between-group polarization increases conflict. Greater extremism within a group may benefit its rival.

Keywords: Internal and external rent-seeking; Social distance; Ethnic conflict; Extremism; Polarization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 D74 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110482

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