The Stability Threshold and Two Facets of Polarization

Ori Haimanko (), Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber
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Michel Le Breton: Universit? de Toulouse I, GREMAQ and IDEI, Toulouse, France.
Shlomo Weber: Southern Methodist University, USA, CORE, Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and CEPR.

No 508, Working Papers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the stability threshold that quanti?es the minimal returns to size suffcient to prevent credible secession threats by regions of the country. Severity of internal tension has been linked to degree of polarization of citizens?preferences and characteristics. We show that the increasing degree of polarization does not, in general, raise the stability threshold, even though this hypothesis holds in some asymptotic sense. We also examine the question of the number of smaller countries to be created if the unity of the large country is not sustainable, and investigate the link between this number and the degree of the country polarization.

Keywords: Polarization; Secession; Stability threshold; Clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D73 H20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2005
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