We study whether crony governance can extend beyond economic policy to the targeting of state violence against citizens. We do so with a micro-analysis of state repression by the Argentine military junta that took power in March 24, 1976. Specifically, we examine the logic driving the choice of...

Under dictatorship, trade unions and strikes are illegal, and so wages are low and employment is full. Under democracy, there are two institutional innovations: trade unions, which can keep the wage about the Walrasian level, and the citizen franchise, by which citizens may vote transfer...

Damned if you do--damned if you don't : the collaboration dilemma in business during war and under dictatorship / Joachim Lund -- Die "Neuordnung" des europäischen "Grosswirtschaftsraumes" : deutsche Pläne und Realität / Dietrich Eichholtz -- Thesen und Desiderata zur ökonomischen...

While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...