Refugees, xenophobia, and domestic conflict

Racism, xenophobia, and redistribution

We report here a summary of our recent research on the effect that the race issue, in the United States, and the immigration issue in European countries, is having on the degree of redistribution and the size of the public sector that is implemented through political competition. We model political competition as taking place on a two dimensional policy space, where the first issue is the tax r...

Racism, Xenophobia, and Redistribution By

We model political competition as a contest between parties that represent constituents, and which announce policies in a two-dimensional policy space; the first dimension concerns the degree of redistribution, and the second, the race or immigration issue. Given the distribution of voter preferences on this space, a political equilibrium is determined. We study the effect that racist or anti-i...

The Logic of Xenophobia

In this article I discuss the subjective rationality of xenophobic and racist beliefs. Although such beliefs are mostly non-rational from an objective perspective, because of their incongruence with reality, under certain conditions they may appear rational from people’s subjective point of view – in particular in situations of uncertainty. The reason for this is mainly cognitive limitations an...

Causal modeling of domestic violence based on marital intimacy, inhibition and marital conflict

The present study was conducted with the aim of modeling the causality of domestic violence based on marital intimacy, restraint, and marital conflict. The method of descriptive correlational research was structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this research includes all the couples involved in domestic violence in Shiraz city in the years 2020 to 2021, who have experienced ...

Domestic Political Institutions and the Evolution of International Conflict 1