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Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the...
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civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide …Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders. Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower …
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democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …
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's military dictatorship whose rise to power dramatically altered the distribution of power of local political elites. We document … that municipalities that were more politically concentrated prior to the dictatorship in the 1960s are relatively richer in …
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not sufficient, the military can take action against a nondemocratic regime in order to create its own dictatorship. A … more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …
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Some argue that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not for their benefit, such as that of apartheid South Africa, should be considered odious and not transferable to successor governments. We argue that an institution that truthfully announced whether regimes are...
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Recent work in the sociology of economic development has emphasized the establishment of a professional government bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private enterprise can flourish. I focus on the role that internal...
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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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We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but …
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In elections that take place in a less-than-perfect democracy, incumbency advantages are different from those in mature …
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