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Newson, Adlai - 2018

We explore the role of ruling elites in autocratic regimes and provide an assessment of tools useful to clarify the structure of opaque political environments. We first showcase the importance of analyzing autocratic regimes as non-unitary actors by discussing extant work on nondemocracies in...

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AI-tocracy

Beraja, Martin; Kao, Andrew; Yang, David Y.; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually reinforcing when: (i) the new technology bolsters the autocrat's power; and (ii) the autocrat's demand for the technology stimulates further innovation in applications beyond those...

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A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility : China vs. Europe Revisited

Jia, Ruixue; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

opportunities to access elite status than Premodern Europe, for example via the civil service exam and the absence of hereditary … Elite-People relationship can stabilize autocratic rule. If absolute power is stronger, this stabilizing effect will be …

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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War

Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007

Assassinations are a persistent feature of the political landscape. Using a new data set of assassination attempts on all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to identify assassination's effects. We find that, on...

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The Political Economy of Warfare

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2006

Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain little materially and may lose much more. This paper presents a model of warfare as the result of...

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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China : Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off

Martinez-Bravo, Monica - 2017

We propose a simple informational theory to explain why autocratic regimes introduce local elections. Because citizens have better information on local officials than the distant central government, delegation of authority via local elections improves selection and performance of local...

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Roots of Autocracy

Galor, Oded - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of human from Africa tens of...

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How Modern Dictators Survive : An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism

Guriev, Sergei - 2015

infer it from signals inherent in their living standards, state propaganda, and messages sent by an informed elite via … invest in making convincing state propaganda, censoring independent media, co-opting the elite, or equipping police to … grow over time--even if living standards fall. Censorship and co-optation of the elite are substitutes, but both are …

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A Theory of Minimalist Democracy

Bidner, Chris - 2014

A majority of the world democracies are far from the benchmark of representative democracy. This paper presents a model of political transitions based on a minimalist conception of the democratic state, i.e. a form of government solely characterized by competitive elections. We show that the...

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How Is Power Shared In Africa?

Francois, Patrick - 2012

employing data on the ethnicity of cabinet ministers since independence. As opposed to the view of a single ethnic elite … proportional allocation for the elites of each group may still result in misallocations in the non-elite population …

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