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Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Advance Access published online on December 3, 2007
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, doi:10.1093/jleo/ewm058
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Urban Extremism

Jan K. Brueckner*

University of California, Irvine

Amihai Glazer**

University of California, Irvine

* Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. Email: jkbrueck{at}uci.edu.

**Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. Email: aglazer{at}uci.edu.

A current majority in some city, seeking to increase the probability that it will set policy in the following period, may initially adopt extremist policies that are particularly unattractive to the minority, leading some members of the minority to emigrate. This article develops a model to illustrate this idea, while providing examples that illustrate its relevance.


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