GANDHI, JENNIFER; PRZEWORSKI, ADAM - In: Economics and Politics 18 (2006) 1, pp. 1-26
Dictatorships are not all the same: some are purely autocratic but many exhibit a full panoply of seemingly democratic institutions. To explain these differences, we develop a model in which dictators may need cooperation to generate rents and may face a threat of rebellion. Dictators have two...