Ronald, Wintrobe - In: Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy 19 (2013) 3, pp. 459-471
In this paper I apply the model of dictatorship, developed in my 1998 book, The Political Economy of Dictatorship, and elsewhere, to understand the workings of the North Korean regime. I argue that initially, under Kim Il Sung it was a Soviet-style regime but the shocks of the 1990s – the fall...