caa a22 4500 477078621 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00151726 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00151726 Austin D. Department of Economics, University of Houston, 77204-5882, Houston, TX, U.S.A. aut The price of nationalism: Evidence from the Soviet Union [Elektronische Daten] [D. Austin] 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% to 75% would have equaled 10% of the Russian republic's GDP. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 1-18 0048-5829 87:1-2<1 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151726 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151726 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Austin D. Department of Economics, University of Houston, 77204-5882, Houston, TX, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl/ 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 1-18 0048-5829 87:1-2<1 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer