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| Author: | Yarbrough, B. V. Yarbourgh, R. M. |
| Title: | Unification and secession: Group size and "escape from lock-in" |
| Journal: | Kyklos
1998 : VOL. 51:2, p. 171-195 |
| Index terms: | SOCIAL CHANGE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT GAME THEORY GERMANY SLOVAK REPUBLIC CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Recently, several countries undergoing dramatic political, economic, and social reform have augmented their populations through national unification (Germany, China- Hong Kong) or reduced them through secession (the USSR, Czechoslovakia). We show, within a very simple game- theoretic framework, that these changes in group size may provide an escape for countries locked in a Coordination Game's inferior equilibrium. The game's structural parameters allow predictions concerning when unification or secession would facilitate a switch to a preferred equilibrium, and the magnitude of the required change in group size. This 'escape from lock-in' approach explains the observed coincidence between countries undertaking unification/secession and those undergoing fundamental reform of the type that requires wholesale changes. |
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