Nation - building

نویسندگان

  • Alberto Alesina
  • Bryony Reich
چکیده

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we compare both regimes in a model where the size of countries and the degree of active homogenization is endogenous. We also offer some empirical and historical discussions of cases which illustrate our theoretical results.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012