Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show … contests can be eliminated only by individual veto against persecution. Moreover, such unanimity rule is resilient to … veto, but only by a persecution-reviewing judiciary whose members cannot join the executive branch in the future, i …