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The Price of Nationalism: Evidence from the Soviet Union

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This paper investigates the effect of implicit subsidies from the Russian Republic to other republics within the former Soviet Union on voting behavior in the All-Union Referendum of March 1991. These subsidies comprised the difference between interrepublic trade balances at domestic and world prices. A model of voting behavior incorporating effects of ethnic composition and subsidies on voting yields the estimating equation. Regression results suggest voters are influenced more by economics (subsidies) than by politics (ethnicity), although ethnicity was an important determinant of republican cooperation with Soviet authorities. Analysis of estimation results suggests the level of implicit subsidies required to increase support for the Soviet regime from 60 percent to 75 percent would have equaled 10 percent of the Russian republic's GDP. Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Austin, D Andrew, 1996. "The Price of Nationalism: Evidence from the Soviet Union," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 87(1-2), pages 1-18, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:87:y:1996:i:1-2:p:1-18
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    1. Andreas P. Kyriacou, 2005. "Rationality, Ethnicity And Institutions: A Survey Of Issues And Results," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 19(1), pages 23-42, February.
    2. GENÇ Ismail H. & SAHIN Hasan & BEKMEZ Selahattin, 2010. "Is Turkish Electorate Homo-economicus?," EcoMod2003 330700061, EcoMod.
    3. Andrew Austin, 2005. "Provincial Interests and Political Integration: Voting in the French Maastricht Referendum," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp281, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    4. Dalibor Roháč, 2009. "Why did the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapse? A public choice perspective," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 160-176, June.
    5. Suesse, Marvin, 2019. "Adjusting the size of nations: Empirical determinants of separatism and the Soviet breakup," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 50-64.

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